Editing Apocalypse of Peter (section)

===The Second Coming===
In the opening, the disciples ask for signs of the [[Second Coming]] ({{transliteration|grc|parousia}}) while on the [[Mount of Olives]].  In chapter 2 of the Ethiopic version, Peter asks for an explanation of the meaning of the [[parable]]s of the [[Parable of the budding fig tree|budding fig tree]] and the [[Parable of the barren fig tree|barren fig tree]], in an expansion of the "Little Apocalypse" of [[Matthew 24]].<ref name="bauckham-figs">See [[Figs in the Bible]] for the New Testament's treatment of figs.  The argument that Matthew was the writer's source is that the Apocalypse of Peter shows correspondences with the Matthean text that do not appear in the parallel passages in the synoptic gospels of Mark and Luke.<br/>{{cite journal |last=Bauckham |first=Richard B. |author-link=Richard Bauckham |date=1985 |title=The Two Fig Tree Parables in the Apocalypse of Peter |url= |journal=[[Journal of Biblical Literature]] |volume=104 |issue=2 |pages=269–287 |doi=10.2307/3260967 |jstor=3260967 }}</ref>  Jesus joins the two parables in a detailed [[allegory]].  The setting "in the summer" is transferred to "the end of the world"; the fig tree represents Israel, and the flourishing shoots are [[Jewish Christianity|Jews who have adopted Jesus as Messiah]] and achieve martyrdom.<ref name="bauckham164">{{harvnb|Bauckham|1998|pp=164&ndash;168}}.</ref> The work continues on to describe the end times that will accompany the Second Coming: fire and darkness will convulse the world, a crowned Christ will return in glory, and the people of the nations will pass through a river of fire. The [[Election in Christianity|elect]] will be unscathed by the test, but sinners will be brought to a place where they shall be punished for their transgressions.<ref>{{harvnb|Buchholz|1988|pp=302–306}}.</ref>