How Jesus' Apostles Died
1. Matthew: He suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound.
2. Mark: He died in Alexandria, Egypt after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead.
3. Luke: He was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost.
4. John: He 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 Isle 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, he 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 of Christ following Jesus' 40 days of prayer and fasting.
7. James the Son of Zebedee: As a strong leader of the church, James was beheaded at Jerusalem. The Roman officer who guarded James watched in amazement 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 - (a.k.a. Nathaniel): He 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: He 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 died.
10. Thomas: He was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the subcontinent.
11. Jude: He was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.
12. Matthias: The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot. He was stoned and then beheaded.
13. Paul: He 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 to compared to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by the apostles and disciples during their times for the sake of the Gospel.
“Then they will hand you over to [endure] tribulation, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name...But the one who endures and bears up [under suffering] to the end will be saved." ~ Matthew 24:9,13
Something to Think About:
• Why do we feel sleepy in prayer, but stay awake through a 3 hour movie?
• Why are we so bored when we look at the Holy Bible, but find it easy to read other books?
• Why is it so easy to ignore a spiritually encouraging post about God, yet we forward all the secular ones?
• Why are our prayers getting shorter and less specific, but bars, clubs, and social activities are expanding.
• Why is it so easy to idolize a celebrity, but very difficult to engage with God?
Make sharing this message part of your contribution to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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~ based upon a post by: I'm So Blessed Daily @Imsoblesseddaily
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