in the evidence would all be satisfied.63 For my part, I prefer to link the composition of Mark’s Gospel with the persecution of Roman Christians which followed the great fire of July, A.D. 64.64 It is this persecution which provides a suitable life setting for the one really indubitable event of Peter’s association with Rome—his death there. This event may justly be called indubitable because, in Hans Lietzmann’s words, All the early sources about the year 100 become clear and easily intelligible,