Those that followed and worshiped Jesus as Lord were persecuted, tortured and martyred. ([OverviewBible](https://overviewbible.com/how-did-the-apostles-die/ 'How Did The Apostles Die') has a good list that goes into detail). ### 1: Peter The Apostle: ![[The Death Of Peter]] ### 2: Andrew The Apostle: A fourth-century account reports that Andrew was crucified upside down on a X shaped cross, like his brother Simon Peter, he did not feel he was worthy of dying in the same way his Master had. > [!INfo] See Also > - [[Foxe2020-zi]] > - [[MacDonald2005-ki]] > - [[Eusebius_of_Caesarea_Bishop_of_Caesarea2005-ro]] ### 3: James The Greater: We know James died in A.D. 44 after he was beheaded by King Herod I from Luke's account of the Acts of the Apostles. He was the first martyr from among the twelve apostles ([Acts 12:1-2](https://www.bible.com/bible/59/ACT.12.1-2)). ### 4: John The Apostle: John was believed to have died from natural causes, although he was immersed in a barrel of boiling oil but survived unharmed. He was then exiled on the Isle of Patmos before he was released and went to Ephesus where he died (A.D. 100-105). > [!INfo] See [Philip Schaff](https://paperpile.com/app/p/6c6d4c36-11b7-0147-9c4d-c1ffb6f9cc18 'Ante-Nicene Fathers: Volume III. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian'), Papias of Hierapolis seems to suggest that John was killed by Jewish men. ### 5: Philip The Apostle: Philip died in Hieropolis, Turkey by hanging (A.D. 80). > [!INfo] See Also > - [[Pick_Richardson_bernhard_2022-mx]] > - [[Bovon2012-jw]] ### 6: Nathanael The Apostle: It is believed that Nathanael had ministered in Armenia and was flayed to death with knives in India, Another tradition claims he was beaten unconscious and drowned in the ocean. ([[De_Voragine2012-qs]]). ### 7: Matthew The Apostle: It is said that Matthew died a martyr's death in Ethiopia. It is unknown the cause of death, one source says he killed with halberd ([[Foxe2020-zi]]), but the Talmund seems to support that he was stoned ([[Rodkinson2018-qf]], [[Lardner2015-xn]], [[Martin2012-tz]] ). Clement of Alexandria quotes Heracleon saying that he died of old age, but this has been rejected by scholars ([[Marx1979-ed]]). ### 8: Thomas The Apostle: Ancient tradition says that specifies Thomas was martyred in Mylapore, noting that he was killed with a spear ([[Medlycott1905-ca]], [[Farmer2011-ro]], [[Cordier1920-us]]). ### 9: James The Lesser: Tradition maintains that he was crucified at Ostrakine in Lower Egypt, where he was preaching the Gospel. ([[Schaff2015-sm]]) ### 10: Jude Thaddaeus: Thaddaeus was martyred in Persia. He died via arrows according to the Acts of Simon and Jude found in the The Golden Legend ([[De_Voragine2012-qs]]) ### 11: Simon The Zealot: It is believed that he ministered together with Thaddaeus and was killed with him in Persia, but another account from Ethiopian Christians claim he was crucified in Samaria ([[De_Voragine2012-qs]]). One Tradition says that Simon was crucified ([[McDowell2016-rq]]). Moses of Chorene recorded that Simon the Zealot was martyred in the Kingdom of Iberia.In the sixteenth century, Justus Lipsius recorded that he was sawed in half ([[[Loffler_undated-qd]]). ### 12: Mathias The Apostle: One tradition records that he was stoned by cannibals in Aethiopia ([[MacDonald1990-lt]], [[Eusebius_of_Caesarea_Bishop_of_Caesarea2005-ro]]). Another tradition says, he was stoned by Jews in Jerusalem and then beheaded. ### 13: Paul The Apostle: ![[The Death Of Paul]] ### 14: James - Brother Of Christ: Josephus records how James dies in [[@Josephus2018-gw| Antiquities of the Jews Book 20, Chapter 9, 1]] >[!quote] >1. AND now Caesar, upon hearing the death of Festus, sent Albinus into Judea, as procurator. But the king deprived Joseph of the high priesthood, and bestowed the succession to that dignity on the son of Ananus, who was also himself called Ananus. Now the report goes that this eldest Ananus proved a most fortunate man; for he had five sons who had all performed the office of a high priest to God, and who had himself enjoyed that dignity a long time formerly, which had never happened to any other of our high priests. But this younger Ananus, who, as we have told you already, took the high priesthood, was a bold man in his temper, and very insolent; he was also of the sect of the Sadducees,[23] who are very rigid in judging offenders, above all the rest of the Jews, as we have already observed; when, therefore, Ananus was of this disposition, he thought he had now a proper opportunity [to exercise his authority]. Festus was now dead, and Albinus was but upon the road; so he assembled the sanhedrim of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some others, [or, some of his companions]; and when he had formed an accusation against them as breakers of the law, he delivered them to be stoned: but as for those who seemed the most equitable of the citizens, and such as were the most uneasy at the breach of the laws, they disliked what was done; they also sent to the king [Agrippa], desiring him to send to Ananus that he should act so no more, for that what he had already done was not to be justified; nay, some of them went also to meet Albinus, as he was upon his journey from Alexandria, and informed him that it was not lawful for Ananus to assemble a sanhedrim without his consent.[24] Whereupon Albinus complied with what they said, and wrote in anger to Ananus, and threatened that he would bring him to punishment for what he had done; on which king Agrippa took the high priesthood from him, when he had ruled but three months, and made Jesus, the son of Damneus, high priest. > [!tip] Those Apostles that followed and worshiped Jesus as Lord were persecuted, tortured and martyred.