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Ma’asei Kepha — I. Coptic Act of Kepha — The Paralytic Daughter

Work ID: 6a9dbd3a4dd73f6a953d7f6b · Chapter ID: 6a9dbd3abfce3fe869b9ee62 · Canonical title: Ma’asei Kepha

C1

On the first day of the week a crowd brings sick people to Kepha for healing.

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C2

Someone challenges him: if others receive sight, hearing, strength, and restored limbs, why has he left his own daughter paralyzed on one side?

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C3

Kepha answers that Elohim alone knows why her body remains this way and that the condition is not caused by divine powerlessness.

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C4

To prove this, he commands his daughter to rise in the Name of Yahushua and walk before everyone. She rises whole and the crowd rejoices.

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C5

Kepha then commands her to return to her former condition, saying that the condition is useful for both her and him. She obeys and becomes paralyzed again.

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C6

He explains that at her birth he received a warning that her beauty would become an affliction because many would seek to possess her.

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C7

When she grew older a wealthy man named Ptolemy desired her and attempted to take her despite her family's refusal.

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C8

The manuscript loses two pages at this point. When the text resumes, Ptolemy's men have returned the girl, now paralyzed from head to foot on one side.

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C9

Kepha and her mother receive her with thanksgiving because she has been preserved from sexual violation.

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C10

Ptolemy falls into grief, weeps until he becomes blind, and prepares to kill himself.

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C11

A heavenly manifestation tells Ptolemy that the girl is not a vessel for corruption, commands him to go to Kepha, and treats the young woman as a sister rather than property.

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C12

Ptolemy comes to Kepha, confesses what happened, receives both bodily and inward sight, and many people turn toward the teaching through the event.

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C13

At his death Ptolemy leaves land in the girl's name. Kepha sells it and distributes the entire proceeds to the poor.

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C14

Kepha closes by teaching that what people interpret as abandonment may sometimes be protection they do not yet understand.

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C15

The fragment ends after bread is distributed to those gathered. Its Coptic colophon identifies the piece as an Act of Kepha/Peter.

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