 and was going to return one day in glory and most pertinently in vengeance. Well, up to this point, believers had been mostly left alone by Roman authorities, but Nero found that they were quite easy to pick on in the days that followed. The apostles Peter and Paul would meet their fates along with an unknown but great number of other Christians. And if this was the first time Christians would take heed for a public disaster, it certainly would not be the last.