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The full title of this book, published in 1909, is The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. As early as the second century, numerous legends concerning the fates of the Christian apostles were in circulation. These Acts, widely regarded as originating circa 150 CE, are among the earliest accounts still in existence of the lives, preaching and martyrdoms of the apostles Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. They are written in a fantastic and romantic style, and although they were influential in later Christian conceptions of these apostles, they are historically worthless as biographies. They do, however, reflect many of the beliefs of earliest, pre-Nicene Christianity.

Bernhard Pick translated the most complete versions of the Apocryphal Acts available to him in 1909. Although more complete manuscripts of these Acts have since been discovered, Pick was sometimes working with incomplete texts. Several large lacunae, or gaps in the text, are present in Pick’s translation, and this Librivox recording has attempted to make these lacunae obvious without being intrusive. The Acts of Andrew, in particular, is fragmentary. Also included in this recording are Bernhard Pick’s introductions to each Acts, which reflect the state of scholarly opinion at the time of publication.

—Librivox Summary by JoeD

00 – Preface:

 01 – General Introduction to Apocryphal Acts:

02 – Introduction to the Acts of Paul:

03 – Introduction to the Acts of Paul and Thecla:

04 – Acts of Paul and Thecla,
Chapters 1 – 21:

05 – Acts of Paul and Thecla,
Chapters 22 – 43:

06 – Longer Endings
to the Acts of Paul and Thecla:

07 – Introduction to Paul’s Correspondence
with the Corinthians:

08 – Paul’s Correspondence with the Corinthians:

09 – Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Paul:

10 – Introduction to the Acts of Peter:

11 – The Acts of Peter – The Deed of Peter:

12 – The Acts of Peter
– Peter’s Affair with Simon,
Chapters 1 – 6:

13 – The Acts of Peter
– Peter’s Affair with Simon,
Chapters 7 – 13:

14 – The Acts of Peter
– Peter’s Affair with Simon,
Chapters 14 – 20:

15 – The Acts of Peter
– Peter’s Affair with Simon,
Chapters 21 – 29:

16 – The Acts of Peter
– Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Peter,
Chapters 30 – 32:

17 – The Acts of Peter
– Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Peter,
Chapters 33 – 35:

18 – The Acts of Peter
– Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Peter,
Chapters 36 – 41:

19 – Introduction to the Acts of John:

20 – Acts of the Holy Apostle
and Evangelist John the Theologian,
Chapters 1 – 17:

21 – The Acts of John
– Arrival at Ephesus and Work There,
Chapters 18 – 25:

22 – The Acts of John – The Picture of John
– Healing of the Old Women,
Chapters 26 – 36:

23 – The Acts of John
– Destruction of the Artemis Temple
– The Raising of the Priest,
Chapters 37 – 47:

24 – The Acts of John
– The Parricide – John and the Partridge
– Return to Ephesus and Second Abode There
– From Laodicea a Second Time to Ephesus
– The Parricide,
Chapters 48 – 61:

25 – The Acts of John
– End and Raising of Drusiana,
Chapters 62 – 86:

26 – The Acts of John
– Pertaining to the Life of Jesus and His Death,
Chapters 87 – 105:

27 – The Acts of John – The End of John,
Chapters 106 – 115:

28 – The Acts of John
– Appendix – John and the Robber:

29 – Introduction to the Acts of Andrew:

30 – Acts of Andrew
– The Double Fragment by Euodius
– Andrew in Prison:

31 – Acts of Andrew – The Death of Andrew:

32 – Introduction to The Acts of Thomas:

33 – The Acts of Thomas
– The Deeds of the Holy Apostle Thomas:

34 – The Acts of Thomas
– Second Deed of the Apostle Thomas
– His Appearance Before King Gundafor:

35 – The Acts of Thomas
– Third Deed about the Dragon:

36 – The Acts of Thomas
– Fourth Deed concerning the Colt:

37 – The Acts of Thomas
– Fifth Deed about the Demon in the Woman:

38 – The Acts of Thomas
– Sixth Deed concerning the Young Man
who Killed the Maiden:

39 – The Acts of Thomas
– Seventh Deed concerning the Commander:

40 – The Acts of Thomas
– Eighth Deed about the Wild Asses:

41 – The Acts of Thomas
– Ninth Deed about the Wife of Charis,
Chapters 82 – 95:

42– The Acts of Thomas
– Ninth Deed about the Wife of Charis,
Chapters 96 – 107:

43 – The Acts of Thomas
– Ninth Deed about the Wife of Charis,
Chapters 108 – 118:

44 – The Acts of Thomas
– Tenth Deed how Mygdonia Receives Baptism:

45 – The Acts of Thomas
– Eleventh Deed Concerning the Wife of Misdai:

46 – The Acts of Thomas 
Twelfth Deed Concerning Vazan, Misdai’s Son:

47 – The Acts of Thomas
– Thirteenth Deed how Vazan
and the Others were Baptized:

48 – The Acts of Thomas
– Martyrdom of the Holy and Famous
Apostle Thomas:

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