A translation by Dennis Macdonald (New Testament scholar) features a fantastic scene:
"The Christian community in Patras, so the narrative goes, assembled day and night in the palace of the proconsul Aegeates to listen to the teaching of the apostle Andrew. they were just celebrating the day of the Lord in the room of Maximilla, the proconsul’s wife, when the servants reported the lord of the house was on his way home. Maximilla started to worry how her husband would react to such a tumultuous scene in the palace, but the apostle helped her out of her embarrassment. In his prayer he asked the Lord Jesus for everyone to leave before the proconsul enters the room. And behold, Aegeates he was troubled by his bowels, asked for a lavatory seat, and was sitting on it while the members of the congregation, made invisible by Andrew, were able to steal out beside him. "
You all laughed at me. You mocked me. But every day my faith grows stronger
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