HOW THE APOSTLES and SOME DISCIPLES OF CHRIST DIED
1. Matthew - suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound. 2. Mark - died in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead. 3. Luke - was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost. 4. John - faced martyrdom when he was boiled in a huge basin or caldron of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation there on the island of Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve as bishop of Edessa in modern day Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully. 5. Peter - was crucified upside down on a cross. According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died. 6. James - the leader of the church in Jerusalem, was thrown d...