p. 197 | FATE OF THE APOSTLES

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1880

FATE OF THE APOSTLES.

ALL the apostles were assulted by the enemies of the master. They were called to seal their doctrines with their blood, and nobly did they bear the trial. Tradition says:—

Matthew suffered martyrdom by being slain with the sword, at the distant city of Ethiopia.

Mark expired at Alexandria, after having been cruelly dragged through the streets of that city.

Luke was hung upon an olive tree, in the classic land of Greece.

John was put into a chaldron of boiling oil, but escaped death in a miraculous manner, and was afterward banished to 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 beat to death with a fuller's club.

Philip was hanged up against a pillar, at Hieropolis, in Phrygia.

Bartholomew was flayed alive.

Andrew was bound to the cross, whence he preached to his persecutors until he died.

Thomas was run through the body with a lance, 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 by the Jews, at Salonica.

Paul, after various tortures and persecutions, was at length beheaded, at Rome, by the Emperor Nero.

Simon Zelotes was crucified, in Judea.