* 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.

The Acts of Pilate (; ), also called the Gospel of Pilate, is a purported official document from Pontius Pilate ( or composed from reports at the praetorium at Jerusalem ) reporting events in Judea to Emperor Tiberius, and referring to the crucifixion of Jesus, as well as his miracles.

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.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

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.

The author is traditionally identified as Luke the Evangelist ; see Authorship of Luke – Acts for details.

It is said to be that the author of the Gospel of Luke is the same as the author of the Acts of the Apostles.

The question regarding the genre of Acts is complicated by the fact that it was written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke.

One piece of evidence suggesting this is that, although half of Acts centers on Paul, Acts never directly quotes from the Pauline epistles nor does it even mention Paul writing letters.

Since Luke-Acts was originally a single work, it is important to note that the purpose of Acts is normally examined in conjunction with the Book of Luke.

“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).

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 ).

The fullest account of Leucius is that given by Photius ( Codex 114 ), who describes a book, called The Circuits of the Apostles, which contained the Acts of Peter, John, Andrew, Thomas, and Paul, that was purported to have been written by " Leucius Charinus " which he judged full of folly, self-contradiction, falsehood, and impiety ( Wace ); Photius is the only source to give his second name, " Charinus ".

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.

Under the terms of the marriage treaty, Philip was to be styled " King of England ", all official documents ( including Acts of Parliament ) were to be dated with both their names, and Parliament was to be called under the joint authority of the couple, for Mary's lifetime only.

Early efforts at codifying the Acts of Congress were undertaken by private publishers ; these were useful shortcuts for research purposes, but had no official status.

The fifteen BNA Acts enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament do not have official French-language versions.

The five BNA Acts enacted by the Canadian Parliament do have official French-language versions, and the English-language and French-language versions are equally authoritative ( as with all legislation enacted by the Canadian Parliament ).

The French Constitutional Drafting Committee produced translations of all the British North America Acts, pursuant to section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1982, but these were never enacted by Parliament to make them official.

Under his son, Henry VIII of England, the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542 were passed, integrating Wales with England in legal terms, abolishing the Welsh legal system, and banning the Welsh language from any official role or status, but it did for the first time define the England-Wales border and allowed members representing constituencies in Wales to be elected to the English Parliament.

The confusion resulting from the difference in official and postal names, coupled with the existence of Fairfax Court House and Fairfax Station post offices in Fairfax County, was finally resolved when the Virginia Assembly formally renamed the town Culpeper in 1869 ( Acts, 1869 – 1870, chapter 118, page 154 ).

Descriptive titles began to be added to the enrolled Acts by the official clerks, as a reference aid ; over time, titles came to be included within the text of each bill.

However, following the Acts of Union of 1707, which united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England to become the Kingdom of Great Britain, the ' English ' version of the Union Flag was adopted as the official Flag of Great Britain.

All these three Acts are available on search from the official website.

While today's land-grant universities were initially known as land-grant colleges, only a few of the more than 70 institutions that developed from the Morrill Acts retain " College " in their official names ; most are universities.

His last official act was to pass through parliament resolutions for taxing several articles, such as glass, paint, paper and tea, on their importation into America, which he estimated would produce the sum of ₤ 40, 000 for the English treasury: the Townshend Acts.

Parliament subsequently enacted the National Language Acts 1963 / 67 which provided that the Malay language shall be used for all official purposes.

The Acts also provide that the official script for the Malay language is the Latin alphabet or Rumi ; however, use of Jawi is not prohibited.

Acta Diurna ( latin: Daily Acts sometimes translated as Daily Public Records ) were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette.

There are several Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament for the protection of official information, mainly related to national security.

In February 2007 a teaser trailer for London After Midnight's fourth long-awaited studio album Violent Acts of Beauty was released on the band's official website and LAM's YouTube page.

( The mainstream Orthodox Church has claimed its earliest origins from the Ethiopian royal official said to have been baptised by Philip in Acts 9.

Stacy X mysteriously appears again in 2011's Vengeance limited series, the official sequel to the 1989 / 1990 crossover " Acts of Vengeance ".

In Acts, he converts a eunuch ( an official ) of Candace, queen of Ethiopia, to Christ.