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How
Tradition Says the Apostles Died
As someone has correctly pointed out, hypocrites
and martyrs are not made of the same stuff. Men may willingly die for what they believe to be
true...even at times if what they believe is actually false. But no one will die willingly
for something they know to be a lie!! Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Jesus, committed suicide.
Only John, of the other 13 Apostles, died a natural manner of death (John did not die by
homicide, a martyr).
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Apostle
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Where died
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When died
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Manner of Death
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Peter (Simon Peter),
Bible writer |
Rome, Italy
(Nero) |
54-68AD |
Homicide:
crucified head down,
at his own request |
Andrew,
son of a John & brother of Peter (Matthew 4:18) |
Edessa, Greece |
?AD |
Homicide:
severely scourged & tied by ropes on x-shaped cross
where he hung 2 days to expire |
James,
son of Zebedee & Salome and elder brother of John
(not brother of Jesus) the Bible writer |
Jerusalem,
Israel
(Herod) |
44 AD
(the 1st martyred) |
Homicide:
beheaded with sword; Mark 10:39 & Acts
12:1-2 |
John,
son of Zebedee and brother of James;
Bible writer (John &
Revelation) |
Ephesus,
Turkey
or Turkish Isle
of Patmos |
98 AD |
thrown in boiling oil but unharmed; died of Natural causes &
buried near Ephesus about 100AD |
| Philip of Bethsaida |
Hieropolis, Syria |
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Homicide:
crucified |
| Bartholomew (Nathaniel) |
India or
Armenia |
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Homicide:
beaten/flayed, and crucified
head down |
| Thomas (Didymus) |
Edessa, Greece |
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Homicide:
lanced by
idolatrous priests & burned up in an
oven |
Matthew (Levi), of Capernaum
the Bible writer |
Nadabah, Ethiopia |
about 60AD |
Homicide:
axed to death with a
halberd |
James (son of Alphaeus);
Bible writer
(? half brother of Jesus?) |
Jerusalem, Israel |
AD66 |
Homicide:
thrown down from the Temple tower & not dead so
clubbed to death with a fullers club at age 94
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| Jude (Thaddaeus...Judas Lebbaeus) |
Edessa, Greece |
AD72 |
Homicide:
crucified
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Simon the Zealot
(the Canaanite) |
Brittainnia, Europe |
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Homicide:
crucified |
| Judas Iscariot |
Jerusalem, Israel |
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Suicide:
by hanging Matt. 27:5 |
| Matthias (the 11 remaining Apostles chose him to replace
Judas) |
Jerusalem, Israel |
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Homicide:
stoned and beheaded |
| Paul (chosen by the resurrected Jesus on the road to
Damascus) |
Rome, Italy |
66 AD |
Homicide:
beheaded |
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(posted/adapted 16 Sept. 1999; latest update 5 February
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