[Uncle Chip]

Babylon had been in ruins for 200 years at that point. It was a minor caravan stop, nothing more.

Not true. There was a thriving Jewish community that there that never returned to Israel. They had the Babylonian Talmud, a Jewish school at Pembeditha, . . . I believe Philo and Josephus wrote of the substantial size of the Jewish community there.

Peter was the Apostle to the Jews and went where the Jews were in abundance --- Jerusalem, Asia Minor, Babylon. Meanwhile Jews had been ordered out of Rome by Emperor Claudius and Peter being a Jew and not a Roman citizen, would have been personna non grata there.

[adiaireton8]

There is no evidence that Peter was ever in modern day Iraq. And there is good reason to believe that if Peter had been in Iraq, the believers there would have been quite vocal about that, as a matter of honor and prestige.

-A8

[wagglebee]

Peter being a Jew and not a Roman citizen, would have been personna non grata there.

As evidenced by the fact that they crucified him upside down.

[adiaireton8]

Meanwhile Jews had been ordered out of Rome by Emperor Claudius and Peter being a Jew and not a Roman citizen, would have been personna non grata there.

From what I have read, Claudius's edict was in 49 AD. So, that does not mean that Peter could not have been in Rome between 42 and 49 AD. Moreover, the bishop of a city did not have to remain in a city in order to remain its bishop. So, if in 49 AD Peter left Rome and traveled (and it is thought that he did) through various cities for a time, that is fully compatible with his remaining the bishop of Rome.

-A8