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A:1 Peter is written to Gentiles, not Jews (2:10;4:3-4). Moreover, the letter is supposedly directed to Christians living in five regions of Asia Minor, where Paul had started churches. Nothing connects the historical Peter with these places, just one more reason that most scholars reject Peter as the author of this epistle.


Suffering is the key theme of this epistle. The word ‘suffering’ occurs more often in this short letter than in any other book of the New Testament including the Gospels, which are much longer. The author assumes that his readers themselves are undergoing persecution and that they will be experiencing yet more in the future. "Now, fora little while," he tells them, they "have had to suffer various trials."


1 Peter never says much about official persecution, where Christians are arrested, put on trial for their faith, and martyred. Instead, the opposition seems to come from former friends and neighbours who do not understand or appreciate the Christians' new lifestyle, which is removed from the joyful celebrations of pagan religions (4:1-5). It therefore makes sense that the author stresses to his readers that it is important for them to be obedient to the government and governing officials (2:13-15), to show good conduct among outsiders (2:12), to be devoted slaves, wives, and husbands (2:18-3:7), to do nothing to warrant any opposition, but to suffer only for doing what is right (2:20).


AnswerThe epistle known as First Peter is considered to be an encyclical to all the churches, written during the second century.
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