How The Apostles Died

How the Apostles Died

Matthew suffered martyrdom by being slain with a sword at a distant city of Ethiopia.

Mark expired at Alexandria, after being cruelly dragged through the streets of that city.

Luke was hanged upon an olive tree in the classic land of Greece.

John was put in a caldron of boiling oil, but escaped death in a miraculous manner, and was afterward banished to Patmos. He was the only apostle to die of old age.

Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downward. His wife was martyred before him.

James, the Greater, was beheaded at Jerusalem.

James, the Less, was thrown from a lofty pinnacle of the temple, and then beaten to death with a fuller’s club. Jesus’s brother.

Bartholomew was flayed alive.

Andrew was bound to a cross, not nailed, whence he preached to his persecutors until he died. He was the brother of Peter. He took two days to die.

Thomas was run through the body with a lance at Coromandel in the East Indies.

Jude was either shot to death with arrows or crucified.

Matthias was first stoned and then beheaded.

Barnabas of the Gentiles was stoned to death at Salonica.

Paul, after various tortures and persecutions, was at length beheaded at Rome by the Emperor Nero.

Other Martyrs

Simon and Phillip were crucified.

Stephen, the first recorded martyr, was stoned.

Timothy was dragged, then stoned, after trying to preach the gospel to a procession honoring the false goddess Diana in Ephesus.