The Gospel of Peter

This translation is based on that which I published in The Gospel and Apocalypse of Peter: Two Lectures , etc. (Camb., 1892). It is now carefully revised in accordance with the photographic facsimile. A corrected Greek text will be found in Dr. Swete’s edition (1893).

Παρ[αλημ]φθῆναι is perhaps supported by παραλαβόντες , Matt. xxiv. 27 .

I know no other instance of σταυρίσκειν .

cf . John xix. 31 , where Syr. Pesch. reads: “They say, These bodies shall not remain on the cross, because the sabbath dawneth.”

The text here is corrupt: for ἐπέσαντο I have provisionally read ἔπεσάν τε .

For αὐτὸς ὥρας we must read αὐτῆς ὥρας ( cf . Clem., Hom ., xx., 16); αὐτὴ is the equivalent in later Greek literature of ἐκείνη , as in the modern tongue ( cf . Lc. x. 7, 21, and xii. 12; || ἐκείνῃ, Mt., Mc.)

I have ventured to substitute μετὰ , “together with” ( cf . Matt. xxvii. 66 ), for κατὰ , “down upon.” Dr. Swete, however, keeps κατὰ , and interprets it as “against,” i.e., to guard the sepulchre against.

The form of the question in the Greek suggests a negative answer.