of tradition became more emphatic with the passing of time. The silence of the New Testament concerning a matter on which Roman Catholicism places so much emphasis is significant. Of course it is “possible,” as Pope says,15 that Peter could have gone to Rome after his providential release from Herod’s imprisonment of him, when he “went into another place” (Acts 12:17). The date would have been around A.D. 42–45. But the Jerusalem Council was held in A.D. 49, and Peter was