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 unto you: If ye say unto this mountain Lift thyself and be cast into the sea_ without having doubted in your soul, it shall happen unto you... as one of them was convinced whose name was Simon, and who said: O Lord verily great are the works which thou doest. For we have never heard, nor have we seen [2nd page] ever a man that hath raised the dead, save thee. The Lord said unto him: Ye shall pray for the works, which I myself shall do ...But the other works will I do straightway. For these I do for the sake of (?) a momentary sal- vation in time, in these places where they are, that they may believe on him who hath sent me. Simon said unto him: O Lord, command me, that I may speak. He said unto him: Speak, Peter. For from that day he did call them by name. He said: What then is this work which is greater than these ...except the raising of the dead and the feeding of such a multitude? The Lord said unto him: There is somewhat that is greater than this, and blessed are they, that have believed with their whole heart. But Philip lifted up his voice in wrath saying: What manner of thing is this, that thou wilt teach us? But he said unto him: Thou

This again is not very instructive. The burden of it is, ‘Greater works than these will I do’. There is nothing in it which goes outside the sphere of the canonical Gospels, save Philip’s anger. We shall see that in the Acts of Philip his proneness to wrath is emphasized.