How the�Apostles Died 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.
5�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.
6�James
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.
7�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.
8�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.
9�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.
10�Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary
trips to establish the church in the sub-continent.
11�Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.
12�Matthias
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.
13�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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