• Deaths of the Apostles

    Published on: Feb. 22, 2009
    By Stephen Bell

    JAMES - April 44, beheaded by King Herod

    JAMES - (Jesus' half-brother), thrown from temple, clubbed to death 66 AD

    PAUL & PETER - 67 AD - Paul is beheaded in Rome during reign of Nero

    - Peter is crucified upside down

    ANDREW - 68 AD - crucified in Patras Greece on an "x" shaped cross LUKE - crucified with ANDREW

    JOHN MARK - 68 AD - dragged by horses with a rope around his neck until death

    PHILIP - cruelly tortured to death in Asia Minor

    MATTHEW - speared to death in Nadabah , Ethiopia

    MATTHIAS - burned to death in Syria

    THOMAS - stabbed to death in Mylapore , India in 72 AD

    BARNABUS - martyred in Salamis, Cyprus in 73 AD

    SIMON <& JUDAS - torn apart by a Persian mob in 79 AD

    JAMES ( son of Alphaeus ) stoned to death by Jews at age 94

    TTTUS - dies on the island of Crete

    TIMOTHY - dies at Ephesus by being stoned to death