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Why did Saint Paul get beheaded?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

St. Paul had been arrested and sent to Rome for trial. While awaiting his trial in prison, much of the city of Rome was destroyed by fire. Nero, who was probably responsible for the fire, needed a scapegoat on which to blame the fire. Since the Christians were already an irritation to him, he chose to persecute them. Both Peter and Paul were leaders of this new religion and Nero thought that if he had them executed, the new church would collapse.

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