The Acts of John:


This book was condemned as heretical in 787 CE. Augustine, who was a bishop from 396 to 430 CE, quoted from that book. Besides, a literary analysis of the book suggests that it was composed in the second half of the second century CE. (Cameron R, 1982)


Lets read the essential parts from this book:



I, then, when I saw him suffer, did not even abide by his suffering, but fled unto the Mount of Olives, weeping at that which had befallen ...
And my Lord standing in the midst of the cave and enlightening it, said: John, unto the multitude below in Jerusalem I am being crucified and pierced with lances and reeds, and gall and vinegar is given me to drink. But unto thee I speak and what I speak hear thou ...
But this is not the cross of wood which thou wilt see when thou goest down hence: NEITHER AM I HE THAT IS ON THE CROSS, WHOM NOW THOU SEEST NOT ...

THOU HEAREST THAT I SUFFERED, YET DID I NOT SUFFER; THAT I SUFFERED NOT, YET DID I SUFFER; THAT I WAS PIERCED, YET I WAS NOT SMITTEN; HANGED, AND I WAS NOT HANGEDd; that blood flowed from me, AND IT FLOWED NOT.