The Apostle Paul in Rome: from trial to execution
The author considers possible versions of the fate of the Apostle Paul. According to one of them, the result of Paul's appeal to the Emperor was the death sentence of the apostle, which was immediately carried out. Another, based on indirect, but sufficiently convincing data, suggests the acquittal as a result of the first trial, and the resumption of the missionary activity of St. Paul. A few years later, after his return to Rome, he was captured, possibly as a result of a denunciation, and sentenced to death on charges of high treason, with Paul's Roman citizenship becoming an aggravating circumstance that time. The trustworthiness of the tradition, which asserts that St. Paul was executed on the road from Rome to Ostia, is beyond doubt.