the Good News in the western end of the Mediterranean. (Clement speaks of Paul reaching “the furthest limits of the West,” commonly understood as a reference to Spain; 1 Clement 5; cf. Radice 1968:25). This indicates that the case against him in the Roman courts came to nothing. A few years later (AD 64–65, in the reign of Nero), according to early tradition, Paul was rearrested, sentenced to death in Rome as a leader of the Christians, and beheaded outside the city. (For a full account of the various