Nearly all of Jesus Christ’s disciples were killed after he rose to heaven. Only one disciple managed to escape death as the majority of the disciples perished in excruciating deaths....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Simon was crucified, James was beaten until his brain was smashed out, Bartholomew was beheaded, Phillip was crucified, Mark was dragged to pieces by a horse, Jude was crucified, Matthew was slammed with a halberd, Thomas was pierced with a spear, Mathias was stoned and beheaded, Luke was hung on an olive tree. The only apostle to miraculously escape martyrdom was John the Divine.
His younger brother James was one of the Twelve Apostles. The Church Fathers maintain that he outlived the other apostles and was the only one to pass away from natural causes.
They also go by the names John the Evangelist, John of Patmos, John the Elder, and the Beloved Disciple. Tertullian reports that John was exiled (perhaps to Patmos) after being put into boiling oil in Rome without suffering any harm.
The apostle John is said to have been ordered to be boiled alive in oil by the Roman emperor Domitian, but John only preached from within the pot. At another time, John was forced to consume poison, yet it did not hurt him as Mark 16:18 foretold.
John, the leader of the Ephesus church at the time, was consequently banished to Patmos. He was allegedly released from the island before he passed away, according to certain historians and academics. Many think he was not put to death like the other apostles, even though no one is certain of his exact date or place of death.
Almost all of Jesus Christ’s disciples were killed after he ascended to heaven. Thomas was stabbed by a spear, Mathias was stoned and beheaded, Luke was hanged from an olive tree, and Peter was crucified upside down.
Andrew was also executed on a transverse cross. The only apostle to miraculously escape martyrdom was John the Divine…CONTINUE READING>>
