Where is that in Scripture?
Let's see.
Act 10:9¶On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
Act 10:10And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
Act 10:11And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Act 10:12Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Act 10:13And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
Act 10:14But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Act 10:15And the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
Act 10:16This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
Act 10:17¶Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
Act 10:18And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.
Act 10:19While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Act 10:20Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
Where is that in scripture?
Oh Sure!
You ignore Christian History even by non Catholic Scholars.
About 34AD ( Acts 2:41), we have an early mention of Peter. Some days later, in Acts 5:19, Peter is freed from prison by an angel. He spends four years in Jerusalem (Acts 8:25). St. Paul arrived at the beginning of Peter's fourth year (Acts 9:27-28). In the same year Peter (Acts 9:32) went to Joppe, raised Tabitha, and had the linen vision (Acts 10:11-12). After a few days he went to Caesarea (to visit Cornelius - Acts 10:23). He returned to Jerusalem (Acts 11:18) for a short time. Then he went to Antioch in Syria (as did Barnabas). This is attested to by Anacletus (Ep. iii), Marcellus (Ep. iii), St. Innocent I (Ep. xiv), St. Damasus in the Pontifical Book, St. Jerome in the "De Viris Illustribus" etc.
Peter?s episcopacy in Antioch lasted seven years (St. Leo, Sermon on Sts. Peter and Paul). Eleven years after the Ascension (the second year of Claudius), Peter went to Rome, first visiting Jerusalem (Acts 12, where he is thrown in prison, then rescued by an angel). The Roman Martyrology records the converts he sent to various parts, e.g. to Sicliy he sent Pancras, Marcian, and Berillus; to Verona he sent Exuperius, etc.
In the seventh year of his Roman pontificate, Claudius expelled all the Jews (and the Christians, who were regarded as a Jewish sect) from Rome. St. Peter returned to Jerusalem. Paul and Barnabas came for him over the dispute at Antioch (Acts 15:8). This Council took place in the 10th year of Claudius.
(Paul was converted the year after the Ascension, and went to see Peter in Jerualem in the third year of his conversion (Gal. 1:18); fourteen years later he went again to Jerusalem (Gal 2:1) and attended the Council (Acts 15). So there were eighteen years from the Crucifixion to the Council of Jerusalem, which would be the tenth year of Claudius' reign.)
Claudius died after a reign of thirteen years, and his four-year edict of expulsion against the Jews died with him. It was during this four-year spell that Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans. Nero succeeded, and Christians began returning to Rome (including Aquila and Priscilla). Peter returned to Rome in the first year of Nero's reign. Two years later Paul joined Peter in Rome as a prisoner. (So how come Paul found the Jews in Rome knew the Christian religiononly by report, if Peter had been there? The solution is that the Jews who had been banished did not return.)
Two years later (fourth year of Nero's reign), Paul, now set free, spent some time in Rome, then left for Spain.
In the tenth year of Nero (22nd year of Peter's pontificate, 64 AD), Rome was set on fire. Nero blamed the Christians and began a persecution against them the following year.
In the twelfth year of Nero (68AD), Peter, who had been absent for a while, came back to Rome to revive the Church. In this year Peter wrote his second Epistle, in which he foretells his own death (1:14). Nero cast Peter and Paul into the Mamertine prison for nine months. From here Paul wrote his Second Letter to Timothy, requesting he come to Rome to witness his (Paul's) martyrdom. It was at this tme that Process and Martinian were converted, along with 47 others.
In ~68-69AD, in the 25th year of Peter's pontificate in Rome, Peter and Paul were sentenced to death.
This simple sketch should explain any difficulties which arise, e.g., how Peter could have been seven years at Antioch and twenty-five years Bishop of Rome, and yet be in Jerusalem in the 4th, 11th and 18th year after Our Lord's Ascension, as inferred from the Epistle to the Galatians and the Acts of the Apostles.
That St. Peter was Bishop of Rome is testified by:
- Eusebius, Chronicon, 74
- St. Irenaeus, Book III, chapter 3.
- Dorotheus, In Synopsis.
- St. Augustine, Epistola 53 and Contra Epistolam Fundamenti, ch. 4, title 8; in chapter 5 he writes: "I am kept in the church by the succession of Bishops from St. Peter, to whom the Lord committed the care of His sheep down to the present Bishop."
That St. Peter died in Rome is testifed by:
- St. Augustine, de Consense Evangelistarum, Book 1.
- Eusebius, Chronicon 71, a Christo nato.
- Paul Orosius, History, Book VIII.
- St. Maximus, Sermon v on the Birthday of the Apostles.
- Origen, Book III on Genesis, as stated by eusebius, HIstory, Book III, ch. 2.
- St. Jerome, Book of Illustrious Men.
Calvin: "I cannot withstand the consent of those writers who prove that Peter died at Rome." Institutes, Book IV.
You have Misrepresented Scripture and Protestant Historical Scholars and that is even worst.
, though it's not all in the NT, we know that the other Apostles were sent to other places - like Thomas to India (to this day, Indian churches use his name), Peter to Antioch (and perhaps Rome), Andrew to Greece and the areas around the Black Sea, John the Evangelist to Asia Minor, where he died at Ephesus. My point being that Christ didn't "bypass" the other Apostles - He had specific plans for each of them to spread the Gospel.
