GENERAL OBSERVATIONS The Last Days of Saint Paul

There are two basic traditions concerning Paul's final mission on this earth. One tradition holds that at his trial in Rome, Paul was acquitted. When Paul was released, he began his travels again, only to be re-arrested. This tradition claims Paul journeyed as far as Spain. Another tradition says Paul was condemned at his Roman trial and then executed by the swift stroke of a sword. The last version of Paul's later years and his end are considered by most scholars to be the more accurate and historical of the two approaches.

But Acts does not take Paul's story to the scene of his death. Instead, Acts ends with Paul's first imprisonment in Rome: "And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came unto him,/Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him" (Acts 28:30-31). All of this occurred after Paul had been imprisoned in Philippi with Silas. After a severe earthquake, Paul was released and he traveled to Corinth, Athens, and Ephesus. Upon arriving in Jerusalem, Paul was accused of star

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's final days in Rome became quite cruel, severe, and difficult, with his execution climaxing the 'second' incarceration. Scholars are mostly of the opinion that Paul's imprisonment in Rome was essentially in two parts or stages. When they are compared, the very nature and quality of each of the two imprisonments are quite clearly dissimilar--at least tradition projects such a situation with regard to Paul's final years in Rome. There are various reasons why Paul was so comfortably and reasonably treated during his first Roman imprisonment. One very important reason for Paul's freedom when he first arrived in Rome was the fact that he was a Roman citizen. Therefore, Paul was qualified and entitled to certain privileges and considerations due to his political status. A Roman citizen was not likely to be put through a series of humiliating punishments and tortures while waiting to go to trial. And so, Paul, during his first imprisonment, was allowed to study and speak as he wished: "And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till eveni
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