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PETER AND PAUL, THE PASSION OF

Two different narratives, each attributed to Marcellus, a follower of Peter, recounting the passion of Peter and Paul. The longer version of the two, dating perhaps to the 6th century, is attested in Slavonic, Latin, and Greek and appears to be later than the apocryphal Acts of Peter and Paul. The Passion narrates the apostles’ adversarial encounters with Simon Magus and Nero in Rome and features the apocryphal Letter of Pilate to the emperor Claudius. The narrative culminates with descriptions of the executions of Peter and Paul and the disposition of their relics at sites associated with the apostles’ death. The shorter Latin version (6th-7th century) inserts different narrative details drawn from the Acts of Peter, omits the Letter of Pilate, and terminates at the apostles’ sentencing. Paul is eclipsed by the more prominent Peter in both accounts, perhaps due to the authors’ dependence on the pro-Petrine Acts of Peter.

Bibliography. J. Charlesworth, New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Metuchen, N.J., 1987), 329-30.

Melissa M. Aubin

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PETER AND PAUL, THE PASSION OF

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)