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R. Gregory Jenks
Paul and His Mortality, 12/2015Book Chapter
No one knows for certain when, where, or how the Apostle Paul died. Tradition sets the year of his death either in A.D. 64 or in late A.D. 67 / early A.D. 68 and puts the place of his death in Rome. Tradition also says that Paul was a martyr and that he was beheaded at the bequest of Caesar Nero. Some say he was martyred after having been imprisoned in Rome with the Apostle Peter, who himself was martyred shortly thereafter. The annals of Christianity have different embedded traditions regarding Paul’s death.² The relative obscurity of Paul’s death is
