Neronian persecution

During the Neronian persecution, he was executed in about 64 AD.

The fall of Jerusalem coupled with the Neronian persecutions form the tension within the subtext of Revelation.

The Neronian persecution was under way and there is evidence from extra-biblical sources that Paul was condemned to death and beheaded.

Most scholars now agree that Peter was likely martyred in some connection with the Neronian persecution, but the precise date of his death is impossible to determine.

He is speaking undoubtedly, as the whole passage proves, of the Neronian persecution, and thus refers the martyrdom of Peter and Paul to that epoch.

The crucial, early (A.D. 96) letter of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians strongly links the martyrdoms of Peter and Paul with those of the Roman Christians enduring the Neronian persecution (I Clement, v, vi).

Christian tradition, for example Eusebius of Caesarea(History book 2, 24.1), has maintained that Peter was killed in Nero's persecution, and thus had to assume that the Roman persecution alluded to in First Peter must be this Neronian persecution.