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A leopard speaks, the earth swallows a hostile crowd, and Philip travels with his sister Mariamne.
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The Acts of Philipの概要
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- 9,660語27 chapters
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- 50ページ
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- 標準 longer sentences, everyday words
- 初版刊行年
- 西暦350年頃by Anonymous (Early Christian Apocrypha)
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The Acts of Philip in short
The Acts of Philip is an episode-by-episode adventure about an apostle sent to preach in cities that worship idols, serpents and wealth. Philip heals the sick, raises the dead, argues with philosophers and priests, and stands up to a dragon. His sister Mariamne and Bartholomew walk with him, and Jesus sends them partly to keep Philip's temper in check.
What The Acts of Philip is about
What would you do if a leopard walked out of the wilderness, fell at your feet, and began to speak in a human voice? That is the scene waiting for Philip, one of the twelve apostles, on his road through the land of the Ophiani, the people who worship the serpent.
The Acts of Philip is an anonymous early Christian narrative, written in Greek and handed down in several forms. Scholars place its main material around the fourth century. It belongs to the apocryphal acts, stories that follow apostles on journeys the New Testament leaves unwritten. Along the way you meet a stubborn high priest, a wife who tests her husband's guest, and a hero whose temper worries even Jesus. Your first stop is Philip's encounter with a grieving widow.
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The story in 8 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Philip meets Athens and a furious high priest
The story opens on a road. A widow carries her only son out for burial, and she tells Philip she has spent a fortune on the gods for nothing. Philip raises the boy in the name of Jesus. The young man sits up and follows the apostle.
Then Philip enters Athens. Three hundred philosophers gather, because they take him for a wise man. They say they want something new, and Philip answers that they must first cast away the old man, since new wine does not belong in old wineskins.
The philosophers write to Ananias, the high priest in Jerusalem. He arrives with five hundred men and calls Philip a sorcerer. When he rushes to strike the apostle, his hand withers, and he and all his men go blind. Philip prays, and the heavens open. Jesus appears in glory, and the idols of Athens fall. Philip restores the sight of Ananias, who calls it magic. Then the earth swallows Ananias to the knees, and he cries out that it is magic and says he will not believe.
The crowd wants to stone him, but Philip holds them back. He offers to bring Ananias up if he repents. Mercy and force pull against each other in Philip from the very start.
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A healed eye opens the way to Nicatera
At Azotus, Philip's miracles cause a great commotion.
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One household converts and a crowd tests Philip
Ireus goes home to a wife who will not agree.
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Mariamne joins Philip and the beasts speak
The story goes back to the day the apostles drew lots.
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A dragon in the desert meets a cup of water
After five days of travel, the company meets its first great enemy.
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Hierapolis worships the serpent and seizes the apostles
The scene shifts to the days of the emperor Trajan.
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Carthage, a ship and a talking ox
In Jerusalem, Philip has a vision of Jesus, who sends him to Carthage to drive out the ruler of Satan.
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Andrew and Peter face man-eaters and a needle
The last scenes follow other apostles.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Philip An apostle sent to the Greeks who heals and preaches boldly, but is quick to anger and needs his companions to restrain him.
- Mariamne Philip's sister, chosen by Jesus to go with him and steady him, a calm and powerful teacher in her own right.
- Bartholomew A fellow apostle who joins Philip in the wilderness and shares his hardships, hanging beside him in the temple of the serpent.
- Ananias The high priest of the Jews at Jerusalem, who pursues Philip to Athens and refuses to believe even as the earth swallows him.
- Ireus A wealthy, just man of Nicatera who shelters Philip, wins his household to faith and later becomes the first bishop there.
- Stachys A believer cured of forty years of blindness who opens his house to the apostles in Hierapolis.
- Nicanora The proconsul's wife, healed of an eye disease, who believes despite her violent husband.
- Andrew An apostle who sails with Jesus as pilot to rescue Matthias and later works beside Peter in the city of the barbarians.
How it ends (spoiler)
In Hierapolis Philip is rebuked for his unforgiving wrath. Jesus tells him he will die in glory but wait forty days outside paradise, then enter. Philip asks to be buried in papyrus and tells the church to be built where he falls. He dies, a vine grows, and Stachys becomes bishop. Bartholomew goes to Lycaonia and Mariamne to the Jordan. The final scenes show Peter and Andrew converting Onesiphorus and a woman who turns her house into a convent, and they consecrate a church.
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『The Acts of Philip』についての質問
What is the Acts of Philip about?
It follows the apostle Philip on missionary travels with his sister Mariamne and Bartholomew. They heal, raise the dead, face dragons and hostile leaders, and preach in cities such as Athens, Nicatera, Hierapolis and Carthage.
Who wrote the Acts of Philip and when?
The author is unknown. It was written in Greek, and scholars generally place its main material around the fourth century, though they disagree about how much of it is earlier. It survives in several forms and fragments.
Why is the Acts of Philip not in the Bible?
It belongs to the apocryphal acts, early Christian narratives about apostles. Church leaders did not include it in the New Testament canon, partly because of its unusual teachings on chastity and the body and its legendary, miracle-heavy stories.
Who is Mariamne in the Acts of Philip?
Mariamne is Philip's sister and travelling companion, chosen by Jesus to go with him. She calms and encourages him, and in the story she is a powerful figure of spiritual authority in her own right.
Is the Acts of Philip an easy read?
It reads as a fast adventure with short scenes, clear characters and plenty of dialogue. Each episode, from the talking leopard to the camel and the needle, works as a small story you can follow on its own.
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The Acts of Philip. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-acts-of-philip.
The acts of Philip. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-acts-of-philip (Original work published ca. 350)
The Acts of Philip. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/loa-acts-of-philip.
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}
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