How did each of the Disciples die?
Judas – We all know what happened to him… Andrew – was crucified, suspended on an olive tree, at Patrae, a town of Achaia [Greece]; and there too he was buried. Bartholomew – was crucified with his head downward, and was buried in Allanum, a town of the great Armenia [modern day southern Georgia]. James, Son of Alphaeus – James was stoned to death in Jerusalem: James, Son of Zebedee (James was the brother of John, the disciple “that Jesus loved”.) James, his brother, when preaching in Judea, his head was cut off with the sword by Herod the tetrarch, and was buried there. Yep… James’ head was cut… John, brother of James and son of Zebedee – John was one of the few disciples that did not die a cruel death, but of “old age”. John was banished by Domitian to the Isle of Patmos, and later died in Ephesus: Matthew/Levi – Matthew wrote the Gospel in the Hebrew tongue, and published it at Jerusalem, and fell asleep at Hierees, a town of Parthia.\224 [Parthia is near modern day Tehran] Si
Matthew suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound. Mark died in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead. Luke was hanged by idolatrous priests on an olive tree in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost. John faced martyrdom when he was boiled in a 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. Peter was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ was crucified. James the Just, the leader of the church in Jerusalem, was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle o
