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Papyrus 50

Date: Late Third Century A.D.

Discovered: Egyptian

Location: New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Library

Contents: Acts 8:26-32, 10:26-31

Notes: This appears to have been a one-page manuscript containing only these two passages in Acts, not a continuous reading of the book as a whole. Each story involves a Jewish leader approaching a gentile with the gospel. The papyrus appears to be complete as is.

 

Acts 8

26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. 28 He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

30 Philip ran came to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

31 He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this,

“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
    As a lamb before his shearer is silent,
    so he doesn’t open his mouth.

 

[No gap in the manuscript]

 

Acts 10

26 But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.” 27 As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together. 28 He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean. 29 Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”

30 Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting[1] until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

 



[1] This manuscript and the Majority Text say Cornelius was fasting. The critical text omits this.

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