2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. • ST. STEPHEN suffered the next in order. His death was occasioned by the faithful manner in which he preached the gospel to the betrayers and murderers of Christ. To such a degree of madness were they excited, that they cast him out of the city and stoned him to death. • JAMES THE GREAT suffered under Herod Agrippa by beheading AD 44. • MATTHEW in Ethiopia, in which latter country he suffered martyrdom, being slain with a halberd in the city of Nadabah, A. D. 60 • PHILIP suffered martyrdom at Heliopolis, in Phrygia. He was scourged, thrown into prison, and afterwards crucified, A. D. 54 • JAMES THE LESS At the age of ninety-four, he was beat and stoned by the Jews; and finally had his brains dashed out with a fullers club. • ANDREW he was taken and crucified on a cross, the two ends of which were fixed transversely in the ground • MARK was dragged to pieces by the people of Alexandria, at the great solemnity of Serapis their idol, ending his life under their merciless hands. • PETER during the reign of the emperor Nero, being crucified with his head downward, at his own request • PAUL returning to Rome, he was apprehended by order of Nero, and beheaded • JUDE He was crucified at Edessa, A. D. 72 • BARTHOLOMEW He was at length cruelly beaten and then crucified by the impatient idolaters. • THOMAS he was martyred by being thrust through with a spear • LUKE is supposed to have been hanged on an olive tree, by the idolatrous priests of Greece. • JOHN he was ordered to be sent to Rome, where itis affirmed he was cast into a cauldron of boiling oil. He escaped by miracle, without injury. Domitian afterwards banished him to the Isle of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation Nerva, the successor of Domitian, recalled him. He was the only apostle who escaped a violent death What is your excuse?
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