Peter and his wife were martyred on the same day. They didn’t die alone, they died together.
Clement of Alexandria recorded it around 200 AD. Peter watched his wife dragged to execution first. His last words to her:
“Remember thou the Lord.”
Not “I love you.” Not “Stay strong.”
Remember the Lord.
They could have avoided this. Separate.
Scatter. Hide. Isolation would have saved their lives but damned their souls. Rome killed their bodies. Compromise would have killed their witness.
Modern Christians can’t survive church politics. These two died for the gospel.
Today’s Christians avoid community to stay comfortable. “I don’t need church, I have Jesus.” “I don’t need accountability, I have grace.”
Peter and his wife prove you’re a liar.
You think isolation protects you. It doesn’t. It makes you weaker.
Peter watched his wife die and still had strength to carry his cross because community prepared him for loss.
Real community isn’t tested in coffee shops.
It’s tested under fire. Find people who will die with you, not just dine with you.
Everyone shows up for meals. Only a few show up for the cross.
You won’t face Roman execution. But you’ll face cancer. Betrayal. Financial collapse. And when that happens, isolation will finish what the crisis started.
Peter and his wife faced Rome together and won. Not because they survived, because their witness outlasted the empire that killed them.
Find people who will remember the Lord with you when hell comes calling. Not people who make you feel good. People who make you strong.
That’s what biblical community builds.
- The Biblical Man (TBM) on X