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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar there was a very great eclipse of the sun, more than any known before; and it was night at the sixth hour of the day, so that even the stars appeared. 241 And the Lord Jesus Christ, the son of the living God, gave up the spirit on the same day of Preparation, it was about the ninth hour. And immediately there was a great earthquake throughout the whole world, and tombs were opened and rocks were split and the dead were raised, as is reported with all truth in the divine scriptures; so that the Jews said, Truly this was the son of God, whom we have crucified. And Jesus Christ was buried at the tenth hour of the same day of Preparation, in the consulship of Sulpicius and Sola, in the seventy-ninth year according to Antioch the great, when Cassius was then governor of Syria, who had also been promoted by the same Tiberius Caesar. And our lord and God Jesus arose in the month of Dystros, which is also March, on the 25th, at the tenth hour of the night, as the Lord's day was dawning, the twenty-sixth of the same month of March, when the moon was sixteen days old, and he appeared to the apostles and to many other saints and conversed with them on the earth for 40 days after the resurrection. And our lord and God Jesus Christ was taken up into the heavens in the month of Artemisios, which is also May, on the 4th, at the second hour of the day, on the fifth day, as the holy apostles and a great multitude of others were watching how he was taken up by the clouds, and the holy angels were saying, Why do you gaze into the heavens, men of Galilee? This is Jesus. 242 And the holy and life-giving Spirit came down upon his holy apostles in the month of Artemisios, which is also May, on the 14th, on the Lord's day, at the third hour of the day, when the same Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea; who was appointed to rule the nation by the same Tiberius Caesar, who abolished the kingdom of the Jews and appointed for them a ruler whom he himself wished, while Annas and Caiaphas were high priests of the Jewish nation. And four years after the resurrection and ascension of our savior Jesus Christ, during the reign of the same Tiberius Caesar, after Saint Paul had departed from Antioch the great, having first preached the word there in the street near the Pantheon called Singon with Barnabas, and had gone out to Cilicia, Peter came from Jerusalem to the same Antioch and was teaching the word. And having enthroned himself there, being persuaded by those from the Jews who had become Christians, he did not receive or love the faithful from the Gentiles, but having thus left them, he departed from there. But Saint Paul, coming after this to Antioch the great, and learning these things about Saint Peter, removed the offense everywhere and received and loved all equally, exhorting everyone, just as the most wise Clement and Tatian the chronographers wrote these things. 243 But the emperor Tiberius died a natural death in the palace, being 78 years old. And after the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Helius Gaius, also known as Caligula, became emperor, who had great fear towards all the barbarian nations before he became emperor; and for this reason the senate proclaimed him emperor. He began his reign in the consulship of Gallus and Nonnianus, and his reign lasted 4 years and seven months. He was tall, well-proportioned, with fine features, fair-complexioned, with the beginnings of a beard, straight-haired, small-eyed, very fierce, quick-tempered, magnanimous. In the first year of his reign Antioch the great suffered from a divine wrath in the month of Dystros, which is also March, on the 23rd around the second dawn, this its suffering after the Macedonians, in the year 85 according to the Antiochenes. And a part of Daphne also suffered; and the emperor Gaius provided much money to the same

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ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας Τιβερίου Καίσαρος ἐγένετο ἔκλειψις ἡλίου μεγίστη πλέον τῶν ἐγνωσμένων πρότερον· καὶ νὺξ ὑπῆρχεν ὥρᾳ ἕκτῃ τῆς ἡμέρας, ὥστε καὶ τοὺς ἀστέρας φαίνεσθαι. 241 Ὁ δὲ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος, ἔδωκε τὸ πνεῦμα τῇ αὐτῇ παρασκευῇ, ὥρα ἦν ὡς θʹ. καὶ εὐθέως ἐγένετο εἰς πάντα τὸν κόσμον σεισμὸς μέγας καὶ τάφοι ἀνεῴχθησαν καὶ πέτραι ἐσχίσθησαν καὶ νεκροὶ ἀνέστησαν, καθὰ ἐν ταῖς θείαις γραφαῖς ἐμφέρεται πάντα μετὰ ἀληθείας· ὥστε λέγειν τοὺς Ἰουδαίους, Ἀληθῶς θεοῦ υἱὸς ἦν οὗτος, ὃν ἐσταυρώσαμεν. Καὶ ἐτάφη ὁ Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὥραν δεκάτην τῆς αὐτῆς παρασκευῆς ἡμέρας, ἐν ὑπατείᾳ Σουλπικίου καὶ Σῶλα, τοῦ ἑβδομηκοστοῦ ἐνάτου ἔτους χρηματίζοντος κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν τὴν μεγάλην, ἡγεμονεύοντος δὲ τότε τῆς Συρίας Κασσίου, τοῦ καὶ προαχθέντος ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Τιβερίου Καίσαρος. Ἀνέστη δὲ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ θεὸς Ἰησοῦς μηνὶ δύστρῳ τῷ καὶ μαρτίῳ κεʹ, ὥρᾳ νυκτερινῇ δεκάτῃ, ἐπιφωσκούσης ἡμέρας κυριακῆς, τοῦ αὐτοῦ μαρτίου μηνὸς ἕκτης εἰκάδος, ἐχούσης τῆς σελήνης ἡμέραν ἑξκαιδεκάτην, καὶ ἐφάνη τοῖς ἀποστόλοις καὶ ἄλλοις ἁγίοις πολλοῖς καὶ συνανεστράφη αὐτοῖς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἡμέρας μʹ. καὶ ἀνελήφθη εἰς τοὺς οὐρανοὺς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ θεὸς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς μηνὶ ἀρτεμισίῳ τῷ καὶ μαΐῳ δʹ, ὥρᾳ ἡμερινῇ βʹ, ἡμέρᾳ εʹ, τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ὁρώντων καὶ πολλοῦ πλήθους ἄλλου πῶς ὑπὸ νεφελῶν ἀνελήφθη, καὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἀγγέλων λεγόντων, Τί ἀτενίζετε εἰς τοὺς οὐρανούς, Γαλιλαῖοι ἄνδρες; οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Ἰησοῦς. 242 Καὶ κατῆλθε τὸ ἅγιον καὶ ζωοποιὸν πνεῦμα εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους αὐτοῦ ἀποστόλους μηνὶ ἀρτεμισίῳ τῷ καὶ μαΐῳ ιδʹ, ἡμέρᾳ κυριακῇ, ὥραν γʹ ἡμερινήν, ἡγεμονεύοντος τῆς Ἰουδαίας τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ποντίου Πιλάτου· ὅστις προεβλήθη ἄρχειν τοῦ ἔθνους ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Τιβερίου Καίσαρος, τοῦ καταλύσαντος τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ προχειρισαμένου αὐτοῖς ἄρχοντα ὃν ἠβουλήθη αὐτός, ἀρχιερευόντων δὲ τοῦ Ἰουδαϊκοῦ ἔθνους Ἄννα καὶ Καϊάφα. Μετὰ δὲ ἔτη τέσσαρα τῆς ἀναστάσεως καὶ ἀναλήψεως τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ Τιβερίου Καίσαρος, μετὰ τὸ ἐξελθεῖν τὸν ἅγιον Παῦλον ἀπὸ Ἀντιοχείας τῆς μεγάλης, κηρύξαντα ἐκεῖ πρῶτον τὸν λόγον ἐν τῇ ῥύμῃ τῇ πλησίον τοῦ Πανθέου τῇ καλουμένῃ τῶν Σίγγωνος ἅμα Βαρνάβᾳ, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν Κιλικίαν ἐξελθεῖν, ὁ Πέτρος ἀπὸ Ἱερουσολύμων ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Ἀντιοχείᾳ παρεγένετο καὶ τὸν λόγον ἐδίδασκε. καὶ ἐκεῖ αὑτὸν ἐνθρονίσας, πεισθεὶς τοῖς ἀπὸ Ἰουδαίων γενομένοις χριστιανοῖς, τοὺς ἐξ ἐθνῶν πιστοὺς οὐκ ἐδέξατο οὔτε ἠγάπα, ἀλλ' οὕτως ἐάσας αὐτοὺς ἐξῆλθεν ἐκεῖθεν. ὁ δὲ ἅγιος Παῦλος μετὰ ταῦτα ἐλθὼν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ, καὶ μαθὼν ταῦτα περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Πέτρου, πανταχοῦ τὸ σκάνδαλον περιεῖλε καὶ πάντας ἴσως ἐδέξατο καὶ ἠγάπα, προτρεπόμενος ἅπαντας, καθὼς συνεγράψαντο ταῦτα οἱ σοφώτατοι Κλήμης καὶ Τατιανὸς οἱ χρονογράφοι. 243 Ὁ δὲ Τιβέριος βασιλεὺς τελευτᾷ ἰδίῳ θανάτῳ ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ, ὢν ἐνιαυτῶν οηʹ. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Τιβερίου Καίσαρος ἐβασίλευσεν Ἤλιος Γάϊος ὁ καὶ Καλιγουλᾶς, ὃς ἔσχε φόβον πολὺν πρὸς ἅπαντα τὰ τῶν βαρβάρων ἔθνη πρὸ τοῦ βασιλεῦσαι· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἡ σύγκλητος βασιλέα ἀνηγόρευσεν αὐτόν. ἐβασίλευσε δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Γάλλου καὶ Νοννιανοῦ, καὶ ἐκράτησεν ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ ἔτη δʹ καὶ μῆνας ἑπτά. ἦν δὲ εὐμήκης, εὔθετος, λεπτοχαράκτηρος, εὔχρους, ἀρχιγένειος, ἁπλόθριξ, μικρόφθαλμος, περίγοργος, ὀργίλος, μεγαλόψυχος. ἐν δὲ τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας Ἀντιόχεια ἡ μεγάλη μηνὶ δύστρῳ τῷ καὶ μαρτίῳ κγʹ περὶ τὸ αὖγος τὸ δεύτερον αὐτῆς πάθος τοῦτο τὸ μετὰ τοὺς Μακεδόνας, ἔτους χρηματίζοντος πεʹ κατὰ τοὺς Ἀντιοχεῖς. ἔπαθε δὲ καὶ μέρος ∆άφνης· καὶ πολλὰ χρήματα παρέσχεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Γάϊος τῇ αὐτῇ