Bible Question: How did Peter die? |
Bible Answer: I believe there is still significant disputes over exactly how Peter died. I've read some accounts where he was imprisoned and died a slow death and others where he was burned to death. I also came across this, according to "The Life and Epistles of St. Paul", by Thomas Lewin (Vol. 2, London. 1874. P. 368): "Peter, on the other hand, suffered and died as the result of CRUCIFIXION: Shortly after the dispatch of the second epistle [II Timothy] Peter arrived at Rome, and, according to the general tradition was CRUCIFIED there in the Vatican, the scene of the other [earlier] martyrdoms, with his head downwards." |