How do each of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ died?

Question

...i wonder if there is any written facts or writings about how the apostles died and why is it not written or included in any of the teaching or writings of their own, i mean one of the postle or the last apostle standing on that time before he died might have written how his fellow apostle suffered or persecuted or died.

Answer 1

Matthew was killed in Ethiopia by a sword wound.

Mark died in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead.

Luke was hanged in Greece .

John was boiled in a huge basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome. However, he didn't die. He was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos. He 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.

James the Just, was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple. When they discovered that he survived the fall, they beat hims to death with a fuller's club.

James the Greater, a son of Zebedee, was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem.

Bartholomew, also know as Nathanael, was flayed to death by a whip.

Andrew was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece.

The apostle Thomas was stabbed with a spear in India.

Jude, the brother of Jesus, was killed with arrows.

Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.

Barnabas was stoned to death at Salonica.

Paul was tortured and then beheaded by Nero

Answer 2

Other than the Apostle James, the Bible contains no information about how any of the others died. James was executed by one of the King Herods (there was a whole line of them). And of course Judas who hung himself within hours of betraying Jesus. Tradition holds that Peter and Paul were both executed in Rome under Nero Caesar around the year 67 AD. In the case of Paul this is reasonable as his writing end at that time. Jesus did tell Peter that he "would be taken where he did not want to go" as a prophecy of how it would die. But we are never told what that meant. But most scholars agree that it indicated he would be martyred. Tradition says that he was crucified. The same scripture also indicates that John would live to be the oldest of the apostles. His gospel and other writings appear to have been written around 90-100 AD. Beyond that, the New Testament does not give us any information about the other apostles.

Answer 3

Some are documented. Others are not.

It's believed that all of them died a martyr's death with the except of John who is credited with writing the book of Revelation. He died in exile and was the last of the 12 recognized Apostles to die.

The Bible only mentions the deaths of two apostles, James who was put to death by Harold Agrippa I in 44 AD and Judas Iscariot who committed suicide shortly after the death of Christ.

It's known through tradition that Peter was crucified, and hung on the cross upside down...by request! He felt he was not worthy to die in the same way as Jesus.

I've provided links with information as to what happened to the rest of the 12 apostles.

Answer 4

James son of Zebedee
James evidently died in 44 C.E. Herod Agrippa I had him executed with the sword. He was the first of the 12 apostles to die as a martyr.—Ac 12:1-3.

James, son of Alphaeus
unknown death biblically

Judas Iscariot
suicide

Matthias who replaced Judas Iscariot.
death unknown biblically

Simon Peter
Death unknown biblically

Simon, not Peter
Death unknown biblically

John
it is believed that he died at Ephesus in about 100 C.E. during the reign of Emperor Trajan.

Paul
Paul wrote his second letter to Timothy, wherein he implied that his death was imminent. (2Ti 4:6-8) Likely Paul suffered martyrdom at the hands of Nero shortly thereafter

Matthew
death unknown biblically

Bartholomew
Death unknown biblically

Thomas
Death unknown biblically




brbith more

Answer 5

You are going to get alot of answers to this. I had someone ask it of me in a class I was teaching. After ALOT of research I found that there are differing versions around all the deaths except one.
From my studies, and I am not the last word on this subject by any means, is that He called them up, much like in the OT, and that's why the reports are varied, and maybe why they didn't report on it themselves.
Great Q. Start looking for yourself, tho, don't just take the variety of answers you may well get here. And see what you come up with. It's very interesting work, I think.

Answer 6

Yes, there are. Eusebius recorded some of them, I'll look them up for you.

James (son of Zebadee) was excuted in Jerusalem by Herod Antipas, apparently run through with a sword. (Rangedog below is probably right about it being Herod Agrippa. The date is wrong for it to have been Herod Antipas, who was exiled in 38 AD. My source seems in error.)

John (the Revelator) and Philip are buried at Ephesus. How they died isn't mentioned.

James (Jesus' brother) was stoned in Jerusalem.

Vespasian issued an order to execute all descendents of David, and the remaining family members of Jesus (mostly children of his brothers) were executed. Domitian renewed the order.

Peter and Paul were executed in Rome at about the same time.

(That must be an atheist giving me a thumbs down. They hate evidence more than they hate Christians, if you can believe it.)

Answer 7

Peter - martyrdom; crucified by the Romans
James - martyrdom; not sure how he died
John - allegedly died of old age in exile after Romans failed to kill him by throwing him in burning oil and John surviving
Andrew - martyrdom; crucified in Greece
Phillip - martyrdom; died from crucifixion, but not before convincing the crowd to let his fellow apostle, Bartholomew, go free
Bartholomew - martyrdom - crucified later on after Phillip saved his life
Judas - hanged his self after betraying Jesus
Matthew - not sure how he died
Thomas - allegedly died while in southern India
James - martydom; crucified while preaching in Egypt
Jude and Simon - martyrdom - died at the same time

Answer 8

John is the only one who's death is not recorded. There is some mythos that Saint John is still alive-and will be until the end as the line -"Some won't taste death" was talking about him
Paul and Peter were both Crucified.

Answer 9

their hearts stopped beating and they stopped breathing and their brains stopped recieving oxygen so they died. Thats how they died.

Answer 10

They died because of death.