What is the Gospel of Peter?

The Gospel of Peter is a non-canonical gospel discovered in 1886 in the grave of a Christian monk near Akhmim, Egypt. The Gospel of Peter is a fascinating and fragmentary little gospel that likely circulated during, or even before, the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Many of the stories found in the Gospel of Peter sound a lot like the stories found in the New Testament gospels, but Peter's gospel adds new details here and there and sometimes adds very different details to familiar stories. Was this gospel once considered inspired scripture by the earliest Christians? Watch to find out more!

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✅ Documents for the Study of the Gospels by Cartlidge & Dungan:

- Religiosity Plus

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[mammavicki]

I've always found the gospel of Peter fascinating, and I would love to know what the missing parts tell us about the life and teachings of Jesus. You have done a great job explaining this gospel! So much information in 10 minutes! Keep it up!

[JimGramze]

I didn't know there was a gospel of Peter, and this is very important to me. In the great "chain of command" and baton passing we have Yahweh passing the baton to Moses, and then Jesus passing the baton to Peter. And yet the christian churches ignore Peter and instead run to Paul who disagreed with Peter in many areas. Who got the baton again? Many thanks for this, just subscribed.

[rickdavis]

RELIGIOSITY PLUS:
You wrote: "The Gospel of Peter is a fascinating and fragmentary little gospel that likely circulated during, or even before, the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."


"Likely"? There is no evidence to support that assumption.

The consensus among scholars is that the canonical gospels were written between 50 A.D. and 80 A.D. and the New Testament was completed by the end of the first century. Both Old and New Testament manuscripts were being circulated together, copied and distributed among the people by the end of the first century A.D.

We know that Peter was martyred by Nero in 64 A.D. and the earliest extant manuscript we have for the gospel of Peter is dated to the 8th or 9th century A.D. The first mention of the Gospel of Peter was made by Bishop Serapion of Antioch (AD 200) in a letter titled “Concerning what is known as the Gospel of Peter.” In this letter Serapion advised church leaders not to read the so-called Gospel to their congregations because of its Docetic content. He also condemned the Gospel of Peter as a forgery.

The text is full of embellishments and historical inaccuracies.

[JAAB]

Great video however, only 114 views as of 2-18-22. Way toooo many Christians are really missing out of some really great information Keep-up the great work, and I truly hope more Christians find this channel!

[o.s.h.]

Your production quality is spectacular—when you eventually hit 500k, I’ll be here to see it :)

[terrypaul]

To be carnally minded is death. Literal meaning, the flesh profits nothing. But the Spirit is life, the spiritual meaning, that gives life to the eternal you, the spiritual. The Father is spirit. The good news Christ spoke of the kingdom is within YOU! His words are spirit and truth.

[nbenefiel]

No cross talked. The Gnostic gospels contain all kinds of really weird stuff. My personal favorite is that Jesus never had a real body. He was some kind of ghostlike chimera, and did not suffer any pain while dying on the cross. This is why the early church fathers ordered them destroyed. Fortunately a cache of them was discovered at Naq Hamadi in 1947.

[RynoRyder]

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[evelynschommer]

Good research, I personally feel that if it were inspired by the holy spirit it would be in the Bible - God has everything in the Bible that he wanted there. I am so thankful for God’s Holy Word!!! Thank you for all the research you put into your videos.

[nicolesarah]

Another great video! Short and sweet! Thanks!

[thespiritguru]

You seem to have a very good understanding of these topics. I'm curious as to what education you have and if you are teaching somewhere. You have a very enjoyable way of presenting historical content. Very good!

[thereligionfanatic]

This is such a cool YouTube channel! I love these obscure religious topics. I also like how you approach religion from a scholarly perspective and don't cast your own personal religious views on your audience. Pretty unique concept for a channel! Good videos also!

[MrScotchpie]

Serapion later denounced the Gospel of Peter because of possible docetic beliefs. Docetics believed Jesus divinity (and thereby the Christ) was separate from the physical man. The Christ left Jesus when on the cross, hence the famous saying. However, orthodoxy says Christ died for our sins. How could Christ die on the cross if it had left him and ascended to heaven. Serapion was from the orthodox wing of the early Church and though originally allowing the Gospel to be used, when he read it he denounced it as docetic and banned its use. Hence it does not appear in the Bible.

[AlexUSAF]

I think ultimately this remarkable, & very powerful Gospel might have represented the movement called "Docetism", & this might have been the reason the Early Church Apostolic Fathers rejected it as Cannon. It does not fully correspond enough with the theme of the other traditional four, that Christ was both a moral human and also divine. He felt no pain on the cross because his Earthly form was an illusion meant to trick humanity during the times he was alive on Earth.

[ChaoticIntent_]

Really loved this one, it helped with a paper I wrote for my final. I do wish you would have put up the document talking about the parallels between the cannon gospels and this one (The red and purple document).

[xavierjames]

And if someone pretended too be Peter, then it’s safe too say we shouldn’t believe it right ? I really like this channel

[Kenneth_H_Olsen]

It is not for us humans to judge . Jesus knew, that his job, was to die . So he could be ressurected. And show us the way to true life . Our job is to forgive, so we can be forgiven . For we are also going to die, and live again in his Name .

[shayankhan]

I wish there was more of a historical discussion about the gospels - I usually love reading YouTube comments ☹

[HistoryandReviews]

I want to know what came after “son of Alpheus, whom the Lord..” i feel like it was ripped off on purpose! What if The son of Alpheus was the BeLoved disciple!

Also this gospel implies Jesus legs were broken which is different

Also Clement quotes portions of conversations with Jesus and the Apostles that arent found in the 4 Gospels, wonder if he quoted this gospel?

[theblackhole]

Im here for the thumbnail. And I love these sorts of videos