Acta Philippi

Acts of Philip. The Apocryphal New Testament, being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses. James, Montague Rhodes, translator. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.

108 And he came to the city Ophioryme (Snakestreet), which is called Hierapolis of Asia, and was received by Stachys,[*](One manuscript tells that he had been cured of blindness that lasted forty years.) a believer. And with him were Bartholomew, one of the Seventy, and his sister Mariamne, and their disciples. And they assembled at Stachys’ house.

109 And Mariamne sat and listened to Philip discoursing.

110-112 He spoke of the snares of the dragon, who has no shape in creation, and is recognized and shunned by beasts and birds.

113 For the men of the place worshipped the snake and had images of it; and called Hierapolis Ophioryme. And many were converted.

114 And Nicanora the proconsul’s wife believed; she was diseased, especially in her eyes, and had been healed. She now came in a silver litter.