Acts of Peter

Acts of Peter 29:1

From that hour on they worshipped him like a god upon their faces, and the sick, which they had at home (they brought) to be cured by him. And when the prefect perceived that such a great multitude adhered to Peter, he asked him to depart. And Peter bade the people to come into the house of Marcellus. And the mother of the lad asked Peter to come to her house. And Peter had charged Marcellus (to see to it) that on Sunday he be enabled to see the widows, as Marcellus had promised, that he might minister unto them with his own hand. And the lad who had been raised said, “I leave not Peter.” But his mother returned joyfully and cheerfully to her house. And on the day after the Sabbath she came into the house of Marcellus and brought two thousand pieces of gold, and said to Peter, “Divide these among the virgins of Christ, who minister to Him.” But the lad who had been raised, perceiving that he had not yet given anything to anyone, ran to his house, opened a chest and brought four thousand pieces of gold, and said to Peter, “See, I also, who have been raised, offer the double gift of myself from now on as a living sacrifice unto God.”