The Apostles and their deaths. They were the following by all accounts.

(Matt
10:2, Mark 3:16, Luke 6:14 and Acts 1:13) Andrew, Bartholomew, James son of
Alphaeus, James son of Zebedee, John, Judas Iscariot, Matthew Philip, Simon (who
is called Peter, Simon the Zealot, Thaddaeus son of James, and Thomas. How and
where did the Apostles die? We must remember that Saul or Paul, was also chosen as
an Apostle by God and not by man. Thomas: In A.D. 72 he was speared at Mylapore,
Madras. The legend has that spear was inflicted on his side. He did not die
instantly but crawled while bleeding through a tunnel and reached Chinnamalai and
died there. His followers took his body and buried him in the tombs of the Chiefs.
A merchant from Edessa in Syria who visited that region exhumed his body and took
it to Syria where it was entombed in about A.D. 200. James Alpheus: We know he
lived at least five years after the death of Christ because he was mentioned in
the Bible. Another of the apostles sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel
was James, the son of Alphaeus. Some early writers were confused by the fact that
two of the twelve apostles were named James. James, son of Alphaeus, was the one
who left Palestine after the first twelve years. The deeds of this apostle are
sometimes mistakenly assigned to James, John's brother. But that James was already
martyred by Herod (Acts 12:2). Where did James, son of Alphaeus, preach? "The
Spanish writers generally contend, after the death of Stephen he came to these
western parts, and particularly into Spain (some add England and Ireland) where he
planted Christianity" (p. 148 of Cave's work). Note it. Yet another apostle sent
to the lost sheep of the House of Israel ends in the British Isles, in Ireland as
well as in Britain! Eusebius, in his third book of "Evangelical Demonstrations",
chapter 7, admitted that the apostles "passed over to those which are called the
British Isles." Again he wrote: "Some of the Apostles preached the Gospel in the
British Isles." Could anything be plainer? Even in Spain James spent some time.
Why Spain? From ancient times Spain was the high road of migration from the
eastern Mediterranean Sea to the British Isles. The ancient royal House of Ireland
for a time dwelt in Spain. The prophet Jeremiah passed through Spain into Ireland
with Zedekiah's daughters (Jeremiah 41:10; 43:6). According to tradition, James
son of Alpheus was thrown down from the temple by the scribes and Pharisees; he
was then stoned, and his brains dashed out with a fuller’s club. Jude (Thaddeus)
according to tradition Jude taught in Armenia, Syria, and Persia where he was
martyred. Tradition tells us he was buried in Kara Kalisa in what is now Iran.
Judas Iscariot: Shortly after the death of Christ Judas killed himself. According
to the Bible he hanged himself, (Matthew 27:5) at Aceldama, on the southern slope
of the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, and in the act he fell down a precipice
and was dashed into pieces. Andrew: According to Hippolytus: (Hippolytus of Rome:
Birth unknown, died around 236 A.D.) Andrew preached to the Scythians [modern day
Georgia] and Thracians [modern day Bulgaria], and was crucified, suspended on an
olive tree, at Patrae, a town of Achaia [Greece]; and there too he was buried.
Philip: According to Hippolytus, Philip preached and was executed in what today is
eastern Turkey: Philip preached in Phrygia, and was crucified in Hierapolis with
his head downward in the time of Domitian, and was buried there. Matthew/Levi:
Eusebius referenced to Bishop Papias of Hierapolis, as early as 110 A.D., bearing
witness to Matthew's authorship of his gospel: Matthew put together the oracles
[of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as best he
could." (Eusebius, Book 3, Chapter 39) According to Hippolytus: Matthew wrote the
Gospel in the Hebrew tongue, and published it at Jerusalem, and fell asleep at
Hierees, a town of Parthia. [Parthia is near modern day Tehran] He must have lived
many years as an apostle, since he was the author of the Gospel of Matthew which
was written at least twenty years after the death of Christ. There is reason to
believe that he stayed for fifteen years at Jerusalem, after which he went as
missionary to the Persians, Parthians, and Medes. James the son of Zebedee: He was
put to death by Herod Agrippa I shortly before the day of the Passover, in the
year 44 or about 11 years after the death of Christ. From Acts 12: 1-2. John: No
death date given by early writers. According to Hippolytus, John was banished by
Domitian to the Isle of Patmos, and later died in Ephesus: John, again, in Asia,
was banished by Domitian the king to the isle of Patmos, in which also he wrote
his Gospel and saw the apocalyptic vision; and in Trajan's time he fell asleep at
Ephesus, where his remains were sought for, but could not be found. John was one
of the few disciples that did not die a cruel death, but of "old age". He probably
died somewhere between 90 A.D. to 110 A.D. Simon the Zealot: According to
Hippolytus, Simon the Zealot was the second Bishop of Jerusalem: Simon the Zealot,
the son of Clopas, who is also called Jude, became bishop of Jerusalem after James
the Just. Some say that Simon the Zealot carried the gospel to many parts. Here,
from the Greek records, is the route of his journey: Simon "directed his journey
toward Egypt, then to Cyrene, and Africa ... and throughout Mauritania and all
Libya, preaching the gospel .... Nor could the coldness of the climate benumb his
zeal, or hinder him from whipping himself and the Christian doctrine over to the
Western Islands, yea, even to Britain itself. Here he preached and wrought many
miracles ...." Nicephorus and Dorotheus both wrote "that he went at last into
Britain, and ... was crucified ... and buried there" (p. 203 of Cave's "Antiq.
Apost."). Peter: Simon Peter was made by Christ the chief among the twelve
apostles to coordinate their work. We know Peter was at Babylon in Mesopotamia,
from which he wrote the letters to the churches in Asia Minor (I Peter 5:13).
Babylon at the time was under the rule of the Parthia's Empire! It was after his
release from prison by an angel that he was a fugitive. To be slain on site by any
Roman. Therefore he would of not of gone to Rome but rather fled from the Roman
ruled parts. Babylon was the major city from which the apostles in the east
worked. Similarly Paul and the evangelists under him used Antioch in Syria as
their chief city (Acts 14:26). The order in which Peter, in verse one of his first
epistle, named the provinces of Asia Minor, from east to west and back, clearly
proves that the letter was sent from Babylon in the east, not Rome in the west.
Rome did not become designated as "Modern Babylon" until Christ revealed it, much
later, after Peter's death, in the book of Revelation, chapter 17. And he probably
died in Babylon or Iraq. Paul: died in Rome under Nero. For centuries the
Christian world has taken for granted that Peter and Paul are buried in Rome. No
one, it seems, has thought to question the tradition. Granted, Paul was brought to
Rome about A.D 67. He was beheaded, then buried on the Ostian Way. But are his
remains still there? The universal tradition declared the apostle Peter was also
brought to Rome in Nero's reign and martyred about the same time. Many pieces of
ancient literature (some spurious, some factual) confirm that both Simon Magus,
the false apostle, who masqueraded as Peter, and Simon Peter himself died at Rome.
The question is which Simon is buried today under the Vatican? Is there proof that
the bones of the apostles Peter and Paul were moved from Rome, and are not there
now? Yes! There is a reason the Vatican has been hesitant to claim the apostle
Peter's tomb has been found! They know that it is Simon Magus, the false Peter,
who is buried there, not Simon Peter the apostle. Here is what happened. In the
year 656 Pope Vitalian decided the Catholic Church was not interested in the
remains of the apostles Peter and Paul. THE POPE THEREFORE ORDERED THEM SENT TO
OSWY, KING OF BRITAIN! Here is part of his letter to the British king: "HOWEVER,
WE HAVE ORDERED THE BLESSED GIFTS OF THE HOLY MARTYRS, THAT IS, THE RELICS OF THE
BLESSED APOSTLES, PETER AND PAUL, AND OF THE HOLY MARTYRS LAURENTIUS, JOHN, AND
PAUL, AND GREGORY, AND PANCRATIUS, TO BE DELIVERED TO THE BEARERS OF THESE OUR
LETTERS, TO BE BY THEM DELIVERED TO YOU(Bedes "Ecclesiastical History", bk. III,
ch. 29). Could anything be more astounding? The bones of Peter and Paul (termed
"relics" in the Pope's letter) sent by the Pope from Rome to Britain to the land
of Israel! About a century and a half earlier Constantius of Lyons took the relics
of all the apostles and martyrs from Gaul and buried them in a special tomb at ST.
Albans in Britian. (Life of St. Germanus.) Is it significant that the work of God
and God's College in Britain are in St. Albans? You decide. But that Paul died as
a martyr in Rome, there is no doubt to that. Bartholomew:According to Hippolytus,
Bartholomew preached in India: Bartholomew, again, preached to the Indians, to
whom he also gave the Gospel according to Matthew, and was crucified with his head
downward, and was buried in Allanum, a town of the great Armenia [modern day
southern Georgia]. Eusebius, in his Church History, confirms the ministry of
Bartholomew in India, and adds an eye witness account: About that time, Pantaenus,
a man highly distinguished for his learning, had charge of the school of the
faithful in Alexandria, Pantaenus, is said to have gone to India. It is reported
that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to
Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the
apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the
Hebrew language,
which they had preserved till that time. (Book 5, Chapter 10) Finally, here are
two people who offer a strong testimony to Jesus' resurrection: Jesus' (half)
brother James and Paul. Both of them were against Jesus before their conversion;
and yet later in their lives, both of them were willing to give their life to
Jesus whom they willingly called "Lord". The Bible tells us that James did not
believe in Him: John 7:5 For His brothers did not believe in Him. It should not be
surprising that Jesus' own brothers would not believe, imagine growing up with
Jesus and one day, your brother claims to be the Son of God. The Jewish Historian
Josephus told us that James was martyred in Jerusalem: In Antiquities, Book 20,
Chapter 9: Festus was now dead, and Albinus was but upon the road; so he assembled
the Sanhedrin of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was
called Christ, whose name was James, and some others, [or, some of his
companions]; and when he had formed an accusation against them as breakers of the
law, he delivered them to be stoned. (Note that Josephus was not a Christian and
his work was mainly to write about Jewish history, his mentioning of Jesus and
James affirms the historicity of Jesus and James as actual persons in history). As
this may be the reason why James was willing to die for Jesus: 1Co 15:1 And,
brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have
received, and in which you stand; 1Co 15:2 by which you also are being kept safe,
if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
1Co 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that
Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, 1Co 15:4 and that He was
buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; 1Co 15:5
and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve. 1Co 15:6 Afterward He was seen
by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until this
present day, but also some fell asleep. 1Co 15:7 Afterward He was seen by James.
If you see someone back alive after seeing Him die and be buried, the event can
really change your heart and mind about Him. Paul himself confessed that he was
persecuting Christians before his conversion. According to his own words, Jesus
appeared to Him on the way to Damascus (To round up Christians, see Acts chapter
9.) and his life is no longer the same. His belief in Jesus was backed by his
martyrdom in Rome (he was decapitated) that's a big change of heart: from someone
who could not care less about Christians to someone who would give up his own life
for the belief. The only explanation is that Paul did see Jesus on that road to
Damascus. This concludes the study on what happened to the Apostles. They preached
everywhere and died in due time, whether by natural causes or martyrdom. May God
shine upon you, prospering and blessing all of your steps.