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, did not die by homicide, a martyr.

Apostle

Where
died

When died

Manner of Death

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 bro. of John (not bro. 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 bro. of James;
Bible writer		 Ephesus, Turkey
or Turkish Isle
of Patmos

98 AD

 thrown in boiling oil but unharmed; died of Natural causes in Ephesus
Philip of Bethsaida Hieropolis, Syria Homicide:
crucified
Bartholomew (Nathaniel) India or
Armenia		 Homicide:
beaten/flayed, and crucified
head down
Thomas (Didymus) Edessa, Greece 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 bro. 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
Jude (Thaddaeus...Judas Lebbaeus)  Edessa, Greece AD72 Homicide:
crucified
Simon the Zealot
(the Canaanite)		 Brittainnia, Europe Homicide:
crucified
Judas Iscariot Jerusalem, Israel Suicide:
by hanging Matt. 27:5
Matthias (the 11 remaining Apostles chose him to replace Judas) Jerusalem, Israel Homicide:
stoned and beheaded
Paul (chosen by Jesus on the road to Damascus) Rome, Italy 66 AD Homicide:
beheaded

(posted/adapted 16 Sept. 1999; latest update 1 February 2003)

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