* Acts of Pilate

The closest is the miracle of the woman who was healed by touching the hem of Jesus ’ garment ( Luke 8: 43 – 48 ); her name is later identified as Veronica by the apocryphal " Acts of Pilate ".

The Harrowing of Hell, derived from the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, was a popular part of the York and Wakefield cycles.

Joseph is referenced in apocryphal and non-canonical accounts such as the Acts of Pilate, a text often appended to the medieval Gospel of Nicodemus and The Narrative of Joseph, and mentioned in the works of early church historians such as Irenaeus ( 125 – 189 ), Hippolytus ( 170 – 236 ), Tertullian ( 155 – 222 ) and Eusebius ( 260 – 340 ), who added details not found in the canonical accounts.

The Gospel of Nicodemus, a text appended to the Acts of Pilate, provides additional, though even more mythologized, details about Joseph.

The legend that Joseph was given the responsibility of keeping the Holy Grail was the product of Robert de Boron, who essentially expanded upon stories from Acts of Pilate.

Luke, however, made further reference to this involvement of Herod along with Pilate in Jesus ' execution and linked it with the prophecy about the Messianic King found in Psalm 2, as we can read in Luke's other book, Acts 4: 24 – 28.

The 4th century apocryphal text that is called the Acts of Pilate presents itself in a preface ( missing in some MSS ) as derived from the official acts preserved in the praetorium at Jerusalem.

The Acts of Pilate consist of three sections, whose styles reveal three authors, writing at three different times.

Chapter 35 -" And that these things did happen, you can ascertain from the Acts of Pontius Pilate.

There is a pseudepigrapha letter reporting on the crucifixion, purporting to have been sent by Pontius Pilate to the Emperor Claudius, embodied in the pseudepigrapha known as the Acts of Peter and Paul, of which the Catholic Encyclopedia states, " This composition is clearly apocryphal though unexpectedly brief and restrained.

" There is no internal relation between this feigned letter and the 4th-century Acts of Pilate ( Acta Pilati ).

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church recognized Pilate as a saint in the 6th century, based on the account in the Acts of Pilate, as it does his wife, Claudia Procula, whose strange dream of Christ induced her to try to stop his crucifixion.

The name of the soldier who pierced Christ's side with a longche is not given in the Gospel of John, but in the oldest known references to the legend, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus appended to late manuscripts of the 4th century Acts of Pilate, the soldier is identified as a centurion and called Longinus ( making the spear's " correct " Latin name Lancea Longini ).

An apocryphal work under his name — the Gospel of Nicodemus — was produced the mid fourth century, and is mostly a reworking of the earlier Acts of Pilate, which recounts the harrowing of Hell.

Most modern scholars view the Acts of Pilate as not authentic and as a Christian composition designed to rebuff pagan sources.

The Acts of Pilate does not purport to have been written by Pilate ( thus is not pseudepigraphical ), but does claim to have been derived from the official acts preserved in the praetorium at Jerusalem.

Most modern scholars view the Acts of Pilate as not authentic and as a Christian composition designed to rebuff pagan sources.

He was also aware of an anti-Christian text called Acts of Pilate, which was prescribed for reading in schools under the emperor Maximinus during the Diocletianic Persecution.

" We are forced to admit that Christian Acts of Pilate is of later origin, and scholars agree in assigning it to the middle of the fourth century.

In the lists of the Apostles John has the second place ( Acts 1: 13 ), the third (), and the fourth (; ), yet always after James with the exception of a few passages (; 9: 28 in the Greek text ; Acts 1: 13 ).

Ananias (;, same as Hebrew חנניה, Hananiah, " favoured of the "), was a disciple of Jesus at Damascus mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of " Saul, of Tarsus " ( known later as Paul the Apostle ) and provide him with additional instruction in the way of the Lord.

He appeared again as Poirot in three made-for-television movies: Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ).

The act was later extended to Scotland, as a result of the Treaty of Union ( Article II ), enacted in the Acts of Union 1707 before it was ever needed.

The Acts of the Apostles (, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn ; ), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament ; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.

Joseph Fitzmyer, The Acts of the Apostles ( New York: Doubleday, 1998 ), p. 639 </ ref >

* Alan Taylor, " The Alien and Sedition Acts " in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The American Congress ( 2004 ), 63 – 76

He was a native of Cyprus, where he possessed land ( Acts 4: 36, 37 ), which he sold, giving the proceeds to the church in Jerusalem.

in Amphil., 123 ), Barnabas wrote the Acts of the Apostles.

Longenecker, " Acts of the Apostles ", in volume 9 of The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Frank E. Gaebelein, editor ( Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Corporation, 1976 – 1984 ), page 476.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

8: 2 ), though the very first converts were of all classes ( Acts 16 ); and the parallel facts, their poverty and their open-handed support of the great missionary and his work, are deeply harmonious.

Paul always mentions his own name in his letters and here mentioned Luke, but in the book of Acts Luke himself never mentions his own name, referring to himself more obliquely only by the personal pronoun ' we ' ( as does Matthew in his book ),

In order to see that these churches were properly established ( as was Paul's typical pattern, see Acts 14: 21 – 23 ), Paul left Titus in Crete.

Tertullian ( c. a. d. 160 – 225 ) wrote that when it was discovered that a church elder had composed a pseudonymous work, The Acts of Paul ( which included a purported Pauline letter, 3 Corinthians ), the offending elder “ was removed from his office ” ( On Baptism 17 ).

He wrote biblical commentaries on the Diatessaron ( the single gospel harmony of the early Syriac church ), on Genesis and Exodus, and on the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline Epistles.

According to Acts of the Apostles, Paul founded the church in Corinth ( Acts 18: 1 – 17 ), then spent approximately three years in Ephesus ( Acts 19: 8, 19: 10, 20: 31 ).

They had also been visited by Apollos ( Acts 18: 27 ), perhaps by Peter ( 1 Cor.

Several sources informed Paul of conflicts within the church at Corinth: Apollos ( Acts 19: 1 ), a letter from the Corinthians, the " household of Chloe ", and finally Stephanas and his two friends who had visited Paul ( 1: 11 ; 16: 17 ).

Volunteers, such as those involved in GenerousGenealogists, a follow-on group similar to Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness ( now defunct ), do record lookups or take photos in their home areas for researchers who are unable to travel.

Examples of this have been the Flags Act ( 1953 ), the Royal Styles and Titles Acts ( 1953 and 1973 ), and the Australia Act ( 1986 ).