Acts of Peter

Acts of Peter martyrdom-11:1

When the surrounding multitude cried aloud the Amen, Peter, during this Amen, gave up his ghost to the Lord.. When Marcellus saw that the blessed Peter had given up his ghost, without communicating with anyone, which were also impossible, he took him down from the cross with his own hands, and bathed him in milk and wine. And he broke seven pounds of mastic and other fifty pounds of myrrh and clove and spice and anointed his body, and filled a very costly trough of stone with Attic honey and buried him in his own tomb. And Peter came to Marcellus by night, and said, “Marcellus didst thou not hear the Lord say, ‘Let the dead be buried by their own dead?’” When Marcellus said, “Yea,” Peter said to him, “What thou didst spend on the dead is lost. For, though living, thou didst care like a dead for the dead.” When Marcellus awoke, he narrated the appearance of Peter to the brethren, and he was with those who had been strengthened by Peter in the faith on Christ, strengthening himself now the more till the arrival of Paul at Rome.