Lost scriptures: books that did not make it into the New Testament by [edited by] Bart D. Ehrman Page A
Authors: [edited by] Bart D. Ehrman
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and second centuries.
1See Ehrman, Lost Christianities , 49–50.
Translation by Bart D. Ehrman based on the Greek text found in Egbert Schlarb and Dieter Lu¨ hrmann, Fragmente apocryph gewordener Evangelien in griechischer und lateinischer Sprache (Marburg: N. G. Elwert, 2000) 147–53, but I have followed the sequence of the fragments given in H. Idris Bell and T. C. Skeat, Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and Other Early Christian Papyri (London: British Museum, 1935).
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NON-CANONICAL GOSPELS
1 [And Jesus said]2 to the lawyers: ing: Be clean.” And immediately the lep
“[Punish] every wrong-doer and
rosy left him. And Jesus said to him, “Go,
[transgressor], but not me. [For that one
show yourself to the priests and make an
does not consider] how he does what he
offering for your cleansing as Moses
does.”
commanded; and sin no more. . . .”
Then he turned to the rulers of the
people and spoke this word: “Search the
Scriptures, for you think that in them you
3 . . . [they came] to him and began
rigorously testing him, saying,
have life. They are the ones that testify
“Teacher Jesus, we know that you have
concerning me. Do not think that I came
come from God. For the things you do
to accuse you to my Father. The one who
give a testimony that is beyond all the
accuses you is Moses, in whom you have
prophets. And so, tell us: is it right to pay
hoped.”
the kings the things that relate to their
They replied, “We know full well that
rule? Shall we pay them or not?”
God spoke to Moses. But we do not know
But when Jesus understood their
where you have come from.”
thought he became incensed and said to
Jesus answered them, “Now what
them, “Why do you call me teacher with
stands accused is your failure to believe
your mouth, when you do not listen to
his testimonies. For if you had believed
what I say? Well did Isaiah prophecy
Moses, you would have believed me. For
about you, ‘This people honors me with
that one wrote to your fathers concerning
their lips, but their heart is far removed
me. . . .”
from me. In vain do they worship me,
2
commandments. . . . ’ ”3
. . . to the crowd . . . stones together so that they might stone him. And the rulers were trying to lay
“ . . . hidden away in a secret place
4
their hands on him, that they might arrest
. . . placed underneath in secret . . .
him and deliver him over to the crowd.
its weight beyond measure.” . . . And
And they were unable to arrest him bewhile they were puzzling over his strange cause the hour for him to be delivered
question, Jesus walked and stood on the
over had not yet come. But the Lord
banks of the Jordan river; he reached out
himself went out through their midst and
his right hand, and filled it. . . . And he
left them.
sowed it on the . . . And then . . . water
And behold, a leper approached him
. . . and . . . before their eyes; and it
and said, “Teacher Jesus, while I was
brought
forth
fruit . . . many . . . for
traveling with some lepers and eating
joy . . .
with them at the inn, I myself contracted
leprosy. If, then, you are willing, I will
be made clean.”
2Less certain restorations of the text are enclosed in
Then the Lord said to him, I am will-
square brackets. 3Isa. 29:13.
The Gospel of Peter
The Gospel of Peter was known and used as Scripture in some parts of the Christian church in the second century.1 Its use was eventually disallowed by church leaders, however, who considered some of its teachings heretical and who claimed, as a consequence, that it could not have been written by its imputed author, Simon Peter. Having fallen out of circulation, it was practically forgotten in all but name until a fragment of its text was discovered near the end of the nineteenth century in the tomb of a Christian monk in Egypt.
The fragment narrates the events of Jesus’ passion and resurrection; it begins in mid-sentence with the story of
1See Ehrman, Lost Christianities , 49–50.
Translation by Bart D. Ehrman based on the Greek text found in Egbert Schlarb and Dieter Lu¨ hrmann, Fragmente apocryph gewordener Evangelien in griechischer und lateinischer Sprache (Marburg: N. G. Elwert, 2000) 147–53, but I have followed the sequence of the fragments given in H. Idris Bell and T. C. Skeat, Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and Other Early Christian Papyri (London: British Museum, 1935).
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30
NON-CANONICAL GOSPELS
1 [And Jesus said]2 to the lawyers: ing: Be clean.” And immediately the lep
“[Punish] every wrong-doer and
rosy left him. And Jesus said to him, “Go,
[transgressor], but not me. [For that one
show yourself to the priests and make an
does not consider] how he does what he
offering for your cleansing as Moses
does.”
commanded; and sin no more. . . .”
Then he turned to the rulers of the
people and spoke this word: “Search the
Scriptures, for you think that in them you
3 . . . [they came] to him and began
rigorously testing him, saying,
have life. They are the ones that testify
“Teacher Jesus, we know that you have
concerning me. Do not think that I came
come from God. For the things you do
to accuse you to my Father. The one who
give a testimony that is beyond all the
accuses you is Moses, in whom you have
prophets. And so, tell us: is it right to pay
hoped.”
the kings the things that relate to their
They replied, “We know full well that
rule? Shall we pay them or not?”
God spoke to Moses. But we do not know
But when Jesus understood their
where you have come from.”
thought he became incensed and said to
Jesus answered them, “Now what
them, “Why do you call me teacher with
stands accused is your failure to believe
your mouth, when you do not listen to
his testimonies. For if you had believed
what I say? Well did Isaiah prophecy
Moses, you would have believed me. For
about you, ‘This people honors me with
that one wrote to your fathers concerning
their lips, but their heart is far removed
me. . . .”
from me. In vain do they worship me,
2
commandments. . . . ’ ”3
. . . to the crowd . . . stones together so that they might stone him. And the rulers were trying to lay
“ . . . hidden away in a secret place
4
their hands on him, that they might arrest
. . . placed underneath in secret . . .
him and deliver him over to the crowd.
its weight beyond measure.” . . . And
And they were unable to arrest him bewhile they were puzzling over his strange cause the hour for him to be delivered
question, Jesus walked and stood on the
over had not yet come. But the Lord
banks of the Jordan river; he reached out
himself went out through their midst and
his right hand, and filled it. . . . And he
left them.
sowed it on the . . . And then . . . water
And behold, a leper approached him
. . . and . . . before their eyes; and it
and said, “Teacher Jesus, while I was
brought
forth
fruit . . . many . . . for
traveling with some lepers and eating
joy . . .
with them at the inn, I myself contracted
leprosy. If, then, you are willing, I will
be made clean.”
2Less certain restorations of the text are enclosed in
Then the Lord said to him, I am will-
square brackets. 3Isa. 29:13.
The Gospel of Peter
The Gospel of Peter was known and used as Scripture in some parts of the Christian church in the second century.1 Its use was eventually disallowed by church leaders, however, who considered some of its teachings heretical and who claimed, as a consequence, that it could not have been written by its imputed author, Simon Peter. Having fallen out of circulation, it was practically forgotten in all but name until a fragment of its text was discovered near the end of the nineteenth century in the tomb of a Christian monk in Egypt.
The fragment narrates the events of Jesus’ passion and resurrection; it begins in mid-sentence with the story of
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