Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter

The Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter, also known as the Coptic Apocalypse of Peter and Revelation of Peter, is the third tractate in Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi library. The work is part of Gnosticism, a sect of early Christianity, and is considered part of the New Testament apocrypha. The work was likely originally written in the Koine Greek language and composed around 200 AD. The surviving manuscript from Nag Hammadi is a poor-quality translation of the Greek into Coptic, and likely dates from the 4th century.

The work's author is unknown, although it is purportedly written by the disciple Peter (pseudopigrapha) describing revelations given to him during Holy Week by the Savior Christ. The main thrust of the work is docetism: that the divine Christ was invulnerable and never suffered the pains of the mortal world, and certainly did not die during the apparent crucifixion. Rather, only Jesus-the-man suffered in a variant of the substitution hypothesis. The work also criticizes other Christian groups, comparing them to the blind and deaf, while saying that certain blessed ones (presumably Gnostics) have immortal souls.