(November 14, 2013 at 8:35 am)ToriJ Wrote: He got some brownie points for being hung upside down. Jesus was all, "You're a crazy mofo, you know that? Get your ass in there!"
Now, while I remember always hearing that story I don't remember ever reading it once in the bible. Must have been in the deleted scenes.
It's a mere tradition....you know what "tradition" means in a religious context, right? BULLSHIT.
This is all that the probably pseudoepigraphic epistle "1 Clement" has to say on the subject.
Quote:1Clem 5:4
There was Peter who by reason of unrighteous jealousy endured not one not one but many labors, and thus having borne his testimony went to his appointed place of glory.
1Clem 5:5
By reason of jealousy and strife Paul by his example pointed out the
prize of patient endurance. After that he had been seven times in
bonds, had been driven into exile, had been stoned, had preached in
the East and in the West, he won the noble renown which was the
reward of his faith,
1Clem 5:6
having taught righteousness unto the whole world and having reached
the farthest bounds of the West; and when he had borne his testimony
before the rulers, so he departed from the world and went unto the
holy place, having been found a notable pattern of patient endurance.
Not even a suggestion that either of them were martyred...let alone crucified. Someone invented that bullshit story later on to jazz up the tale.
