Acts of Peter

Acts of Peter 14:1

Marcellus, however, increased daily (more and more in the faith), seeing the signs which Peter did by the grace of Jesus Christ, which was given to him. And Marcellus attacked Simon, who sat in the dining-room of his house. Revilingly he said to him, “O thou most malevolent and most pestilential of men, destroyer of my soul and of my house, who didst intend to lead me away from the Lord Christ, my Saviour.” And he laid his hand on him, and ordered that he be thrown out of his house. And the servants having obtained permission, treated him in the most shameful way; some struck him in the face, some beat him with a rod, some flung stones at him, some emptied vessels containing dirt over his head (those especially), who for his sake had left their master and were imprisoned; other servants whose master he had influenced against them reviled and said to him, “Now we return to thee the worthy reward, according to the will of God, who had mercy upon us and upon our lord.” And Simon, thus treated, left the house and went to the house in which Peter stayed. Standing at the door of the house of the presbyter Narcissus, he cried, “Behold, here am I, Peter; come down, Peter, and I will prove that thou didst believe in a Jewish man and the son of a carpenter.”