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Apocryphal Acts A noncanonical group of texts from the second and third centuries ad that claim to narrate the journeys of the apostles John, Paul, Peter, Andrew, and Thomas, giving sometimes fantastical accounts of their preaching, working of miracles, and deaths. These texts, some of which contain gnostic elements, date after the canonical New Testament books. The only one of these works to appear on a canon list is the Acts of Paul (and it may have been viewed as having a lower status of authority). None of the remaining apocryphal acts were widely authoritative in the early church period and Eusebius, the first of the church fathers to refer to them directly, condemned these works as heretical and indicated that the Acts of Paul was also one of the “spurious works” (Ecclesiastical History 3.25.4–6).

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