Gospel of Peter
- Date of account
- Usually dated to the 2nd century CE; provenance and dependence are debated
- Location
- Egyptian manuscript discovery; likely wider eastern Christian circulation
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Gospel of Peter is known chiefly from a fragment discovered at Akhmim in Egypt, although related material and later references complicate reconstruction. It offers a passion narrative with distinctive portrayals of Jesus’s trial, burial, and resurrection, including unusual witnesses and dramatic imagery. The text is useful for comparison with canonical passion accounts and with early Christian debates over docetism and narrative authority. Scholars dispute its date, original extent, relationship to the canonical gospels, and whether the surviving fragment represents a coherent standalone gospel.
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