Acts of Peter

Acts of Peter 24:1

And Peter said, “Cursed be thy words against Christ. Thou didst speak so impudently whereas the prophet says of him, ‘Who shall declare his generation?’ And another prophet says: ‘And we have seen him, and he had no former comeliness.’ And: ‘in the last days a child shall be born of the Holy Spirit; his mother knows not a man, and no one also says that he is his father.’ And again he says: ‘she has brought forth and has not brought forth.’ And again: ‘is it a very little thing to offer you a battle? Behold, in the womb a virgin shall conceive.’ And another prophet says to honor the father: ‘We neither heard her voice, nor did a midwife come.’ Another prophet says, ‘he came not out of the womb of a woman, but descended from a heavenly place,’ and ‘a stone was cut out without hands and has broken all kingdoms,’ and ‘the stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner,’ and he calls it ‘the tried, precious’ stone. And again the prophet says of him: ‘I saw him come with the clouds of heaven like the Son of man.’ And what more shall I say? Ye men of Rome, if ye knew the prophetical writings, I would explain to you all. It was necessary that through them it should be (spoken) in mystery (and) the Kingdom of God be completed. But this shall be opened unto you afterward. Now (I turn) to thee, Simon: do now one (of the signs) whereby thou didst deceive them before, and I shall frustrate it through my Lord Jesus Christ.” Simon took courage and said, “If the prefect permits.”