Apocrypha of the New Testament (ANF vol. 8)
tr. Alexander Walker, ed. M. B. Riddle · 1886 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
3 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
How the record stands on them
- Dismas legendary — ANF VIII, Gospel of Nicodemus I (Acts of Pilate), 1st Greek Form chs. 9-10 (Dysmas) and Latin Form ch. 10 (Dismas)
- Saint Longinus legendary — ANF VIII, Gospel of Nicodemus I (Acts of Pilate), 2nd Greek Form ch. 11; the 1st Greek Form gives the name only in a note — 'Some of the mss. add: And the soldier Longinus, taking a spear, pierced His side'
- Saint Veronica legendary — ANF VIII, Walker's Translator's Introduction XXI, on The Avenging of the Saviour — 'this version of the Legend of Veronica … there are in this document two distinct legends, somewhat clumsily joined together'; and the name itself is a manuscript addition at Acts of Pilate, 1st Greek Form ch. 7
The apocryphal gospels, acts and Pilate literature printed together in the eighth Ante-Nicene volume, in Walker’s translation from Tischendorf. It is where four of the best-known names in the passion story actually come from: the gospels give no name to the centurion, to either thief, or to the woman with the issue of blood, and the Acts of Pilate gives all of them one. Riddle’s introductory notice states what the collection is — books that never obtained general recognition, elaborating what the canonical gospels leave unsaid, and “probably … not intended to be forgeries, but only novels with a purpose”.