Anonymous, Acta Joannis, 115

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[115] And having sealed himself in every part, he stood and said: Thou art with me, O Lord Jesu Christ: and laid himself down in the trench where he had strown his garments: and having said unto us: Peace be with you, brethren, he gave up his spirit rejoicing

We brought a linen cloth and spread it upon him, and went into the city And on the day following we went forth and found not his body, for it was translated by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto whom be glory, etc

Another says: On the morrow we dug in the place, and him we found not, but only his sandals, and the earth moving (lit springing up like a well), and after that we remembered that which was spoken by the Lord unto Peter, etc

Acta Joannis. Anonymous. Oxford. 1924.

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Acts of John (English) (Acts of John. The Apocryphal New Testament, being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses. James, Montague Rhodes, translator. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.)

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Acta Joannis First1KGreek (Acta Joannis. Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, Part 2, Vol. 1. Bonnet, Maximilian, editor. Leipzig: H. Mendelssohn, 1898.) — 115 focus

115 (22) Καὶ σφραγισάμενος ἑαυτὸν ὅλον ἑστὼς καὶ ¹ εἰρηκὼς Σὺ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, κατεκλίθη ἐν τῷ σκάμματι ἔνθα τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ ὑπέστρωσεν· καὶ εἰπὼν ἡμῖν Εἰρήνη μεθʼ ὑμῶν ἀδελφοί, παρέδωκε τὸ πνεῦμα χαίρων.

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Acts of John

The less good Greek manuscripts and some versions are not content with this simple ending The Latin says that after the prayer a great light appeared over the apostle for the space of an hour, so bright that no one could look at it (Then he laid himself down and gave up the ghost) We who were there rejoiced, some of us, and some mourned. . . . And forthwith manna issuing from the tomb was seen of all, which manna that place produceth even unto this day, etc But perhaps the best conclusion is that of one Greek manuscript:

Augustine (on John xxi) reports the belief that in his time the earth over the grave was seen to move as if stirred by John’s breathing

Anonymous Acta Joannis 115

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