When they reached Malta Paul was bitten by a snake but the power God used the incident to demonstrate Paul was connected with the Lord. (I definitely would not try this at home!) Paul makes the trip to Rome and Acts ends quietly with Paul under either house arrest or guarded supervision. Do we know what happened to Paul?
Christian tradition (according to Calvin Lashway) has him beheaded under the persecution of Nero around A.D. 64. The Book of Acts does not tell us but given the "back and forth" of the last chapters, we can deduce the hostility swung more violent and a persecutor of Christians Nero acted brutally to end Paul's earthly life...his heavenly life though was secure.
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