DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED?
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Matthew
Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed
by a sword wound.
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Mark
Died in Alexandria , Egypt , after being dragged by
horses through the streets until he was dead.
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Luke
Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching
to the lost.
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John
Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of
boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome. However,
he was miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to
the mines on the prison island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic
Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and
returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey .
He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully.
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Peter
He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross. According
to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that
he felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died.
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James
Just The leader of the church in Jerusalem, was thrown
over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple
when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that
he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's
club.
* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the
Temptation.
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James the Great
Son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus
called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader of the church,
James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem . The
Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his
faith at his trial. Later, the officer walked beside James to the place
of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the
judge and knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.
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Bartholomew
Also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia . He
witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey. Bartholomew
was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death
by a whip.
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Andrew
Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras , Greece .
After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to
the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that,
when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted
it in these words: 'I have long desired and expected this happy hour.
The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.'
He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired.
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Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his
missionary trips to establish the church in the sub-continent
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Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith
in Christ.
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Matthias
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas
Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.
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Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero
at Rome in A..D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment, which
allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had
formed throughout the Roman Empire . These letters, which taught
many of the foundational doctrines of Christianity, form a large
portion of the New Testament.
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Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here
are indeed minor compared
to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by
the apostles—
disciples
during their times for the sake of the Faith. And ye
shall be hated
of all men for my name's sake:
But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22
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