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What if Peter sees a living, laughing Savior above the suffering figure on the cross?
The Apocalypse of Peter is a short Christian revelation written under the apostle Peter’s name by an unknown author. In a private conversation, the Savior prepares Peter to see what others cannot. Warnings about false leaders give way to visions that unsettle what Peter thinks he sees.
According to the text, the suffering body on the cross is distinct from the living, spiritual Savior above it. This Gnostic account explores flesh and spirit, blindness and understanding. Found among the Nag Hammadi writings, it offers a view of Jesus and the cross outside the New Testament.
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- Peter’s private teaching Follow a conversation in which the Savior prepares Peter for troubling visions and hidden meanings.
- A warning about authority Read the text’s sharp challenge to leaders who claim divine authority while misleading others.
- Seeing beyond the visible Watch Peter confront fear as a crowd approaches with stones and his understanding is tested.
- The laughing Savior Encounter the startling vision that separates the suffering body from the living Christ above the cross.
- Flesh and spirit Explore how this Gnostic text distinguishes physical suffering from the spiritual life it presents as immortal.
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- A Coptic text from a sealed jar
- Peter is named a base for the remnant
- Covering the eyes shows who is blind
- False teachers will use the Savior's name
- Two kinds of souls grow from two roots
- Two figures stand at the cross
- The commission, and how to read the text today
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The Apocalypse of Peter (Gnostic)
by Attributed to the apostle Peter · 250
A sealed desert jar holds a revelation in which Peter sees two figures at the cross, one of them laughing.
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What would you see if you pressed your hands over your eyes, and the Savior told you to describe it? In the Apocalypse of Peter, an apostle does exactly that, and the answer begins a vision that has startled readers since the text came to light.
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A Coptic text from a sealed jar
In 1945 local men digging near the cliffs of Jabal al-Tarif found a sealed jar. Inside were thirteen books made of papyrus sheets bound in leather, which scholars call codices. They hold more than fifty texts in Coptic, among them gospels, secret teachings, creation myths, and visions.
This work belongs to the collection discovered at Nag Hammadi. The work survives in Coptic among the texts found at Nag Hammadi. Nobody knows who wrote it. The author hides behind the name of the apostle Simon Peter, a habit common in early Christian writing. It is not the other Apocalypse of Peter, a Greek work about heaven and hell. That one only shares the name. This one falls into six brief chapters.
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Peter. The Apocalypse of Peter. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-apocalypse-of-peter-gnostic-nag-hammadi.
Peter. (2026). The apocalypse of Peter. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-apocalypse-of-peter-gnostic-nag-hammadi (Original work published ca. 250)
Peter. The Apocalypse of Peter. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-apocalypse-of-peter-gnostic-nag-hammadi.
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What is the Apocalypse of Peter from Nag Hammadi about?
It tells of a vision given to Peter. The Savior teaches him about blind leaders and false teachers, then shows him the cross with a living Jesus laughing apart from the figure being nailed.
Is the Nag Hammadi Apocalypse of Peter the same as the Greek Apocalypse of Peter?
No. The Greek Apocalypse of Peter is a different work that describes heaven and hell and was read in some early churches. This Coptic text shares only the name and the apostle.
When was the Apocalypse of Peter written and who wrote it?
The author is unknown. Scholars disagree about its date of composition and its relationship to other Gnostic documents. It survives in Coptic in a book found at Nag Hammadi in 1945.
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