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Just a interesting tidbit
Paul Lee Tan said this about the Apostles.
All of the apostles were insulted by the enemies of their Master, Jesus Christ. They were called to seal their doctrines with their blood and nobly did they bear the trial.
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 cauldron of boiling oil, but escaped death in a miraculous manner and
was afterward branded at Patmos.
PETER was crucified at Rome with his head downward.
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.
BARTHOLOMEW was flayed alive.
ANDREW was bound to a cross, whence he preached to his persecutors until he died.
THOMAS was run through the body with a lance at Coromandel in the East Indies.
JUDE was shot to death with arrows.
MATTHIAS was first stoned and then beheaded.
BARNABAS of the Gentiles was stoned to death at Salonica.
PAUL, after various tortures and persecutions, was beheaded at Rome by the emperor Nero.
Such was the fate of the apostles, according to traditional statements.