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 huge Basin 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 on Patmos. The apostle John
was later freed
and returned to serve As Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died
as an old man, the
only apostle to die peacefully.
5. Peter
He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped 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 over a hundred feet
down from the southeast
pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.
When they discovered that he
survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.
* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.
7. James the Great
Son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus Called him to a
lifetime of ministry.
As a strong leader of the church, James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem.
The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended
his faith at his trial.
Later, the officer Walked beside James to the place of execution.
Overcome by conviction, he
declared his new faith to the judge and Knelt beside James to accept
beheading as a Christian.
8. Bartholomew
Also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our
Lord in present day Turkey.
Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was
flayed to death by a whip.
9. Andrew
He was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece. After being
whipped severely by seven soldiers
they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His
followers reported that, when he was
led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: 'I have long
desired and expected this happy hour.
The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.'
He continued to preach to his
tormentors For two days until he expired.
10. Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips
to establish the church in the Sub-continent
11. Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.
12. Matthias
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned
and then beheaded.
13. Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in
A.D. 67. Paul endured
a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many epistles
to the churches he had
formed throughout the Roman Empire. These letters, which taught many
of the foundational
Doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.
Perhaps this is a reminder to us
That our sufferings here Are indeed minor compared To the intense
persecution And cold cruelty
faced by the apostles And disciples during their times For the sake of
the Faith. And ye shall be
hated Of all men for my name's sake: But he that endureth to the end
shall be saved. Matthew
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God WILL!
Jesus' Death
The Death of Jesus
THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS
At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death. At the time Crucifixion was the
"worst" death. Only the worst. Criminals were condemned to be
crucified. Yet it was
Even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike Other criminals condemned to death by
Crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the Cross by His hands and feet.
Each nail Was 6 to 8 inches long. The nails Were driven into His wrist. Not
Into His palms as is commonly Portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that
Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew That when the nails were being
hammered into the Wrist that tendon would tear and Break, forcing
Jesus to use His back
Muscles to support himself so that He could Breath.
Both of His feet Were nailed together. Thus He was forced to Support Himself on
the single nail that Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could Not
support himself
with His legs because of the pain So He was forced to alternate
between arching His
Back then using his legs just to continue to Breath. Imagine the
struggle, the pain, the
Suffering, the courage.
Jesus endured this Reality for over 3 hours. Yes, Over 3 hours! Can
you imagine this kind of
Suffering? A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He
was simply pouring water
From his wounds. From common images We see wounds to His hands and
feet and even the
spear wound To His side... But do we realize His wounds Were actually
made in his body. A hammer
Driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped And an even
large nail hammered through
the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But
Before the nails and the spear
Jesus was whipped and Beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore
the Flesh from His body.
The beating so horrific that His Face was torn and his beard ripped
from His face. The Crown of thorns
cut deeply into His scalp. Most men Would not have survived this
torture. " He had no more blood
To bleed out, only water poured from His Wounds. The human adult body
contains about 3.5 liters
(just less than a gallon) of blood. Jesus poured all 3.5 Liters of his
blood; He had three nails hammered into His
Members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond That, a Roman
soldier who stabbed a spear into His
Chest...All these without Mentioning the humiliation He suffered after
carrying His own Cross for almost 2
kilometers, while the crowd spat in his Face and threw stones (the
cross was almost 30 kg of weight,
Only for its higher part, where His hands were Nailed). Jesus had To
endure this experience, to open
the Gates of Heaven, So that you can have free Access to God. So that
your sins Could be "washed" away.
All of them, with no exception! Don't ignore this situation.
JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!
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