Acts of Thomas 164:1
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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
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And after this was said, Misdai reflected how to put him to death. For he was afraid of the people standing around, many, even some of the chief men, having believed in him. And he arose, and took Judas outside of the city; and a few soldiers accompanied him with their arms. And the multitude thought that the king was wishing to learn something from him; and they stood and observed him closely. And when they had gone forth three stadia, he delivered him to four soldiers, and to one of the chief officeres, and ordered them to take him up into the mountain and spear him. And he returned to the c…
- Source
- Acts of Thomas — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- grc
- Completeness
- Pick 1909 chapters 1-170 as supplied by the staged batches (148 paragraphs). Chapters not printed or not staged (e.g. 142-149) are absent; nothing is reconstructed. The shorter ANF VIII Acts of Thomas packet (anf_acts_thomas) was not used.
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