Peter In Rome? - Chapter II - David J Albert - June 1973

David J Albert

Before launching into a critical study of the post-apostolic record, we need to examine first the Biblical account of the movements of the Apostle Peter. We need to ask: What would we conclude about Peter at Rome if we had only the New Testament? In attempting to reconstruct the later history of the Apostle Peter, Hastings notes that: Except the testimony of I Peter, we have in the New Testament no clear evidence as to the Apostle's movements after St. Paul's notice in Galatians 2. What evidence the New Testament supplies as to later times is negative. [James Hastings, Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IX (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1917), p. 777.] That is to say, it tells us only where Peter was not (with one notable exception) - and where he was not, from the New Testament account alone, was most certainly Rome. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library