Matthew 27:2
Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle And they "delivered Him," He says, "to Pilate."[26]... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle And they "delivered Him," He says, "to Pilate."[26]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV and appropriated to the purchase of a potter's field, as narrated in the Gospel of Matthew, were clearly foretold by Jeremiah:[1598] Origen Against Celsus Book II For it is related that, "when Judas, who betrayed Him, knew that He was condemned, he repented, and... [ Continue Reading ]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII and repented, and hanged himself, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out;[37]... [ Continue Reading ]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value, and gave them for the house of the potter."[92]... [ 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] Origen Against Celsus Book I... [ Continue Reading ]
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Pilate says to Jesus: Hearest thou what these testify against thee, and answerest thou not?[74]... [ Continue Reading ]
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate And others said: Thou art no friend of Caesar's if thou release this man, because he called himself Son of God and king. You wish, then, this man to be king, and not Caesar?[30] Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Which of the two, then, do you wish t... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Praxeas to whom "is given by the Father all power in heaven and on earth."[197] Origen Against Celsus Book I That the judge would, without any hesitation, have set Him at liberty if He had offered a defence, is clear from what is related of him when he said, "Which of the two d... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book II Moreover, why did he intentionally omit what is related of Pilate's wife, who beheld a vision, and who was so moved by it as to send a message to her husband, saying: "Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream becau... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews ,"-the clamour whereby it had extorted His surrender to the cross.[310]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV Now, He who is the Christ may have taken thesynagogue to wife and cohabited with her, but it may be that afterwards she found not favour in Hissight; and the reason of her not having found favour in His sight was, that there was found in her anunseemly thing; f... [ 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 On Baptism intervenes; witness Pilate's hands:[93] Tertullian On Prayer When I was scrupulously making a thorough investigation of th... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book II If, however, you accept the gospel of truth, you will discover on whom recoils the sentence of the Judge, when requiting on sons the sins of their fathers, even on those who had been (hardened enough) to imprecate spontaneously on themselves this condemnation: "Hi... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II Further, it were irrational in us, who have heard that the Lord was crowned with thorns,[169] Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments He is crowned victor against the devil.[294] Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate He gave order, therefor... [ Continue Reading ]
Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies but by the above-named Abraxas; and to have come in a phantasm, and been destitute of the substance of flesh: that it was not He who suffered among the Jews, but that Simon[20] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII But the Jesus according to John, so to spea... [ Continue Reading ]
Five Books in Reply to Marcion is drunk, and gall[333]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian De Corona ferocity involved in the cruel things which then disfigured and lacerated the temples of the Lord, that you may now be crowned with laurel, and myrtle, and olive, and any famous branch, and which is of more use, with hundred-leaved roses too, culled from the garden of Midas, an... [ Continue Reading ]
First Apology of Justin For when He was crucified, they did shoot out the lip, and wagged their heads, saying, "Let Him who raised the dead save Himself."[81]... [ Continue Reading ]
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Others said mocking: Others he saved, others he cured, and he healed the sick, the paralytic, the lepers, the demoniacs, the blind, the lame, the dead; and himself he cannot cure.[108]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews (and when did it "shudder exceedingly" except at the passion of Christ, when the earth also trembled to her centre, and the veil of the temple was rent, and the tombs were burst asunder?[284] Tertullian On Fasting And so the "pressure" must be maintained up to tha... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Then, also, they say that the passions which she endured were indicated by the Lord upon the cross. Thus, when He said, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? "[100] Tertullian Against Praxeas , "My God, why hast Thou forsaken me? "[354] Tertullian Against P... [ 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 ]
A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord Revive.[21] Origen Against Celsus Book II nclusion what was designed against him? "Now to this question, although we are able to show the striking and miraculous character of the events which befell Him, yet from what other source can we furnish an answer than... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians and therefore endure, that we may be found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only Master-how shall we be able to live apart from Him, whose disciples the prophets themselves in the Spirit did wait for Him as their Teacher? And therefore He whom they rightly wa... [ Continue Reading ]
Gospel of Nicodemus II The Descent of Christ into Hell Joseph says: And why do you wonder that Jesus has risen? But it is wonderful that He has not risen alone, but that He has also raised many others of the dead who have appeared in Jerusalem to many.[1]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book II But if this Celsus, who, in order to find matter of accusation against Jesus and the Christians, extracts from the Gospel even passages which are incorrectly interpreted, but passes over in silence the evidences of the divinity of Jesus, would listen to divine portents... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Monogamy , like the other apostles and Cephas? "But when he subjoins those (expressions)which show his abstinence from (insisting on) the supply of maintenance, saying, "For have we not the power of eating and drinking? "he does not demonstrate that "wives" were led about by the apost... [ Continue Reading ]
The History of Joseph the Carpenter But Joseph, that pious old man, was warned of this by a dream. Therefore he rose and took Mary my mother, and I lay in her bosom. Salome[15]... [ Continue Reading ]
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 "quarried or hewn out of the rock; "so that be who examines the words of the narrative may see somethi... [ Continue Reading ]
Didache and the Preparation (Friday).[81] Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate preparation[113] Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Pilate therefore, upon this, gave them five hundred soldiers, who also sat round the sepulchre so as to guard it, after having put seals upon the stone of... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen de Principiis Book III On the other hand, however, we must suppose that it was through the hostile influence of the devil that the suggestion was introduced into the minds of the high priests and the scribes which they made to Pilate, when they came and said, "Sir, we remember that that dece... [ Continue Reading ]