The Acts of Philip is a collection of stories about an apostle traveling the world, healing the ill, and preaching Christ. It makes no distinction between the apostle (Luke 6:14; Acts 1:13) and the evangelist (Acts 6:5; 8:4–40), gives Philip a noble birth (Acts Phil. 6.8), and calls him “Son of Thunder” (Acts Phil. 2.9, 17; cf. Mark 3:17), so the stories may originally have had different protagonists.