Extra · Acts & Letters
Fragment 3
Acts of Paul (Combined Fragments) · Fragment 1 of 18 · 5 passages
1Paul went into … to the place where … was. But Phila, the wife of Panchares, was furious and said to her husband …: “Husband, you have gone … the wild beasts; you have not fathered … your son … where is mine?”
2… desired food … to bury him. But … stood in everyone’s sight and prayed at the ninth hour, until the people of the city came to carry the boy out. When he had prayed, Paul … and saw … and of Jesus Christ … the boy … the prayer.
3… multitude … eight days … they thought that he had raised the … But when Paul had remained, they asked him … the men listened to him … they sent for Panchares … and cried out, saying: “We believe, Panchares, … but save the city from …” And they said many other things. Panchares said to them: “Judge for yourselves whether your good deeds … are not possible … but to … God who has … his Son according to … salvation.”
4“And I also believe, my brothers, that there is no other God except Jesus Christ, the Son of the Blessed, to whom be glory forever. Amen.” But when they saw that he would not turn to them, they pursued Paul, caught him, and brought him back into the city. They mistreated him, threw stones at him, and drove him out of their city and their country. But Panchares would not repay evil with evil. He shut the door of his house and went inside with his wife … fasting … But when evening came, Paul came to him and said:
5God has … Jesus Christ.