You send me a Catholic tract regarding Peter in Rome??
Why don’t you just send me a photo of a graveyard with no “Mary” tombstone to prove her bodily assumption?
Lol!
****Babylon****:
1Peter 5:13. “The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you, as so doth Marcus my son.”
This refers to the city of Babylon on the River Euphrates, the ONLY LITERAL Babylon mentioned in Scripture.
It is a historical fact that the city of Babylon was still in existence at that time (60 A.D) and that there were many Jews there.
Josephus even writes of Babylon about the same time. (Josephus, book 18, chap.9; book 19, chapter 1) for your information, Cronos.
Dake’s Reference.
Another Bible tidbit to be studied:
Acts 8:1. “And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great PERSECUTION against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were ALL scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, EXCEPT THE APOSTLES.”
Get it? The Apostles stayed in Jerusalem, while the rest of the Jewish church at Jerusalem were scattered abroad.
Galatians 2 tells the same story. Paul goes back to Jerusalem 14 years after his first visit there, after his time in Arabia.
So, 17 years after Paul is saved and given his ministry by the risen Christ, he goes to Jerusalem. And the APOSTLES are STILL there.
We know that Paul went LEFT in his ministry, to Rome.
And if 1Peter was read like it said, Peter went RIGHT, to the CiTY of Babylon, where many Jews resided.
Something to ponder one night: WHY did Peter and the 11 remain in Jerusalem when the great PERSECUTION caused the church at Jerusalem to be scattered abroad? Why would the Twelve Apostles, who had been given a commission directly by Jesus Christ to take the gospel to the whole world, stay put in Jerusalem?