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     A Satellite Interpreter is how the ancient speakers communicated  to great crowds of many tens or hundreds of thousands in ancient times. He would need a clear and loud voice, and a very keen ear.
 
All of the disciples of Jesus should be expected to have fulfilled this role in and during the ministry of Christ, on at least dozens of occasions when He spoke to multitudes.  
    
  The Satellite Interpreter and other relay speakers would stand at a predetermined distance from the one speaking.  Either they would surround the speaker, as though equally spaced satellite around a planet, or they would fan out in a semi-circle.  The speaker would say a sentence, perhaps several.  

 The Speaker would pause.  Either the Satellite Interpreter would repeat the words as a megaphone in the same language, or he would exactly interpret, word for word, what the speaker said.  

The Sermon on the Mount is an excellent area to practice these skills, if you wish to duplicate the art.

The crowds that gathered multi-nationally (such as in Rome) would look for a flag, banner, or something that distinguished the Satellite Interpreter, so that he or she could gravitate immediately to the language they were familiar with, to understand what was being said.  
      
Thus, the art of mass throng speaking,  in these ancient times, was  dependent upon being able to strike a speak-and-pause rhythm that would not overtake one’s own Satellites.  This art of  speaking was also used in the arenas, whether or not megaphones were available.

As you read the Gospel of Mark, you read a work that is based exclusively on the recording (or oral stenography, if you will) of the Satellite Interpreter Mark.  

Mark had once been in the ministry (Acts 13:5), but after he was apparently hung by his thumbs in Perga of Pamphylia, he lost his thumbs to become stumps, and was no longer able to minister (Leviticus 21:16-23); he went home in defeat to Jerusalem.   He was redeemed by Barnabas, and later became the infamous Satellite Interpreter to Peter, writing the Gospel of Mark, delivering Paul's Gospel (the book of Hebrews) to John in Ephesus, founding the Church of Alexandria, and was martyred as a bishop.

In a way, I guess Mark really did live a life where he went into orbit, as it were.  If you are in a bad way, and in a bad place, but still wish to serve our Loving G-D...don't give up.  G-D is greater than all our circumstances.   Shalom.

P.S., What do you think?

Amen,
Interpersonal relationships can never be replaced by electronics.
Shalom

Peter and Paul were killed in Rome under the reign of a (ca.) 20 year old Nero on June 29, 57 A.D.

This was some 27 years after the Crucifixion - Death - Resurrection -Ascension of Jesus.

In Acts 15:7 ff., we see that Peter gives up the reigns of primary evangelical preaching to the Gentiles over to Paul and Barnabas.

As a priest, Peter would have had to have stepped down in his leadership role after age 60.

The last leadership role he appears to have is after the death of James -- between 37 and 44 A.D., when Paul and Barnabas were commission to preach to the Gentiles following the death of Herod the tetrarch in ca. 41-44 A.D.

So if we benchmark Peter at age 60 in 44 A.D., or perhaps as old as 70 in the May 47 A.D. (the maximum of 10 years after the death of James, if James died in 37) -- we then see from the 47 A.D. Jerusalem conference of Acts 15, that we can potentially date Peter's birth as circa 24 - 17 B.C.

This makes Peter between 43 and 50 when he was called, between 46 and 53 years old when Christ was crucified, and between 73 and 80 when Peter was crucified in Rome, on June 29, 57 A.D.

This may explain Peter's brashness as trying to out-zeal the younger disciples about him, who he felt threatened by (because of his middle age).

This (above) age estimate of Peter also falls perfectly with the prophecy of Jesus in John 21, saying:

18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.


In other words, you will take up your Cross (literally after a sense) as well. But when he does so, he will (under a dual application of prophecy) be (potentially) old and feeble (as well), not able to dress himself.

Therefore, though an old man performing great miracles and healings and witnessings in Rome from May 55 to May 57 (when he was imprisoned by the 30th of May, 57)...Peter would have had great need for the satellite interpreters, human megaphones, to sound forth the Gospel to a hustling and bustling filthy city of well over one million souls, of every language and dialect, from all over the Empire.

And indeed, this system of "satellite interpreters" would have had to be a reality -- after the Israeli national custom -- dating back to Moses day.

So when we utilize the New Testament...and have now THIS knowledge of Peter's likely age...how does it affect how you view HOW THE APOSTLES THEMSELVES VIEWED Jesus' return, the Tribulation era, the Rapture / Resurrection concept, etc.?

I believe that the incorporating the knowledge of the Law regaring the Silver Trumps ( in which there are simply 2, a first and a LAST Trump) is integral in our better grasping the eschatological understanding of the Apostles; and de facto, of G-D's original intent in Last days prophecies in the Bible.

Thoughts to consider. To the saints, Shalom.