Origen de Principiis Book III ived of reason, and insane (such as those were who are related in the Gospel to have been cured by the Saviour); or when by their wicked suggestions they deprave a sentient and intelligent soul with thoughts of various kinds, persuading it to evil, of which Judas is an... [ Continue Reading ]
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Pilate said: Try him yourselves; and since you have a law, do as your law says. The Jews said: Our law permits to put no man to death.[77] Origen Commentary on John Book I But on the other side, too, there is a part of the Gospel which is for the condemnat... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews For Him it behoved to be made a sacrifice on behalf of all Gentiles, who "was led as a sheep for a victim, and, like a lamb voiceless before his shearer, so opened not His mouth" (for He, when Pilate interrogated Him, spake nothing[302]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Thus did He in like manner speak to Pilate: "Thou shouldest have no power at all against Me, unless it were given thee from above; "[248] Origen de Principiis Book III By which also we are taught, that it is not by any accidental attacks that we are assailed, whe... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews slay Him, saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, "His blood be upon us, and upon our children; "[122] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews and, "If thou dismiss him, thou art not a friend of Cµsar; "[123] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews ,"-the clamo... [ Continue Reading ]
Fragments from Peter of Alexandria "When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment-seat, in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the third hour,"[27] Gospel of Nicodemus... [ Continue Reading ]
Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments And that the Saviour appeared in the world, bearing the imperishable ark, His own body, at a time which was the fifth and half, John declares: "Now it was the sixth hour,"[164]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV In the next place, [Jacob] received the rights of the first-born, when his brother looked on them with contempt; even as also the younger nation received Him, Christ, the first-begotten, when the elder nation rejected Him, saying, "We have no king but Caesar."[323]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews was even at that early period pointing to Christ's death; conceded, as He was, as a victim by the Father; carrying, as He did, the "wood" of His own passion.[201] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews that "wood" was put;[224] Five Books in Reply to Marcion The ploug... [ Continue Reading ]
Five Books in Reply to Marcion By His own death redeemed), without the camp[229]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews just as the other (outrages) which you were to commit on Him were foretold,-all which He, actually and thoroughly suffering, suffered not for any evil action of His own, but "that the Scriptures from the mouth of the prophets might be fulfilled."[197] Cyprian Treat... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics whom He commended to Mary as a son in His own stead?[230] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V He, however, leaving the body of Edem on the (accursed) tree, ascended to the Good One; saying, however, to Edem, "Woman, thou retainest thy son,"[27... [ Continue Reading ]
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate And immediately there ran one of the soldiers, and took a sponge, and filled it with gall and vinegar mixed, and put it on a reed, and gave Jesus to drink. And having tasted it, He would not drink it.[107]... [ Continue Reading ]
The Teaching of Addaeus the Apostle salvation, and for the unavailing support on which ye lean;[38]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V -the sabbaths, I suppose, and "the preparations,"[154] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V and the fasts, and the "high days."[155] Fragments from Peter of Alexandria And again the same evangelist says: "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that th... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book II "For the soldiers brake the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with Him; but when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead, they brake not His legs."[59]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty Whence, too, it was that there flowed out of the wound in the Lord's side water and blood, the materials of either baptism.[297]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And why did He acknowledge Himself to be the Son of man, if He had not gone through that birth which belongs to a human being? How, too, could He forgive us those sins for which we are answerable to our Maker and God? And how, again, supposing that He was not flesh... [ Continue Reading ]
Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV Now all these things were done lest His body, being injured and broken, should be rendered unsuitable[357] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X But we have the whole Jesus, the prophecy concerning Him being fulfilled which said, "A bone shall not be broken."[16... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Up to the present moment they have not, tribe by tribe, smitten their breasts, looking on Him whom they pierced.[142] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh so as even to be recognised by those who pierced Him.[381] Dubious Hippolytus Fragments A... [ Continue Reading ]
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate they, along with the mother of God and Mary Magdalene and Salome, along with John, and the rest of the women, did what was customary for the body with white linen, and placed it in the tomb.[115]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book II or, as John expresses it, "wherein was never man yet laid."[181] Origen Against Celsus Book II And observe whether the harmony of the three evangelists here is not fitted to make an impression: for they have thought it right to describe the tomb as one that was "quar... [ Continue Reading ]