How Did the Apostle Peter Die? What Scripture Says
How did the apostle Peter die? Short answer. Scripture does not narrate Peter's death directly, but it is not silent either. In John 21:18-19, Jesus tells Peter plainly that he will die by having his hands stretched out and being carried where he does not want to go, language John says points to crucifixion. In 2 Peter 1:14, Peter writes that Jesus had made clear to him his death was near. The earliest church writers (1 Clement, Tertullian, later Eusebius) say Peter was crucified in Rome under Nero, likely in the mid 60s AD. The detail that he asked to be crucified upside down, feeling unworthy to die as Jesus did, comes from a later, non-canonical writing, not from the Bible itself. Photo by Ludovic Delot on Pexels Jesus told Peter plainly how he would die After the resurrection, by the sea of Galilee, Jesus restores Peter three times over against his three denials, and then says something that must have landed hard. He tells Peter that when he was young he dressed himself and...