Fragments of Unknown Gospels (Papyri)

Fragments of gospels whose titles are lost, from manuscripts found in Egypt, gathered here as M. R. James grouped them in 1924, one manuscript to a chapter: (1) the Fayoum fragment, a 3rd-century papyrus at Vienna with Jesus' prediction of Peter's denial, which may be a preacher's abridged quotation rather than a gospel; (2) Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 840, a tiny parchment leaf of the 3rd or 4th century in which a Pharisee and chief priest challenges Jesus for walking in the Temple unwashed and Jesus answers that he and his disciples are washed in living waters; (3, 4) two fragments of a Coptic papyrus at Strasbourg (4th-5th century) with a hymn of Jesus to the Father and his farewell to the apostles in the garden; (5) the closing lines of a book, on a leaf bound with the Pistis Sophia manuscript, with the apostles going out to preach; (6) a Coptic gospel leaf found with the remains of the Acts of Paul, later shown to belong to that book, on the works greater than raising the dead; and (7) Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1224, four damaged pages of an uncanonical gospel (3rd-4th century) in which Jesus is asked about his 'new doctrine' and 'new baptism' and says 'pray for your enemies', in B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt's own translation (1914), since James does not include it. Chapters 1-6 are James's translation. Parentheses are restorations or supplied words, '(…)' and '…' gaps; verses are James's paragraphs, or one per speaker in chapter 6 and one per papyrus page in chapter 7. Not part of any church's canon.