My LORD’s BibleNew Testament Apocrypha
Gospels, acts, and revelations that never entered the New Testament canon.
The New Testament apocrypha are Christian writings, mostly from the second century onward, that take the forms of the New Testament — gospels, acts, epistles, apocalypses — but were not received into the canon. Some fill in gaps the gospels leave (Jesus' childhood, Mary's parents, the descent into hell between the crucifixion and the resurrection); others carried the teaching of groups the wider church later rejected.
This collection includes the Protevangelium of James, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Nicodemus (the Acts of Pilate and the Descent into Hell), the Gospel of Peter, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy, the Questions of Bartholomew, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Acts of Thomas, John, Andrew and Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter, and more. The church orders — the Testament of Our Lord and the Apostolic Canons — have their own shelf, and the (Coptic) Gospel of Thomas sits with the Nag Hammadi writings.
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Gospel fragments and sayings
- The Gospel according to the Hebrews (Fragments)
- The Gospel of the Ebionites (Fragments)
- The Gospel according to the Egyptians (Fragments)
- The Gospel of Philip (Fragment Quoted by Epiphanius)
- The Traditions of Matthias (Fragments)
- The Gospel of Peter
- The Preaching of Peter (Fragments)
- Sayings of Jesus (Papyri Oxyrhynchus 654, 1 and 655)
- Fragments of Unknown Gospels (Papyri)
- The Egerton Gospel (Papyrus Egerton 2)
- Sayings of Jesus (Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5575)
- Agrapha: Sayings of Jesus Not in the Gospels