Pertanyaan: 120. Apakah Kita Memiliki Catatan Sejarah tentang Kematian Para Rasul?
Rekaman akhir mereka ditemukan dalam tradisi yang dijaga oleh Gereja awal. Matius, syahid di Etiopia; Markus di Aleksandria, Mesir; Lukas digantung di pohon zaitun di Yunani; Yohanes, setelah banyak bahaya, meninggal secara alami di Efesus; Petrus disalib di Roma, kepala terbalik; Yakobus yang Agung dipenggal di Yerusalem; Yakobus yang Lebih Kecil dipukuli sampai mati dengan tongkat pembuat kain di halaman Bait Allah; Filipus digantung di Hieropolis; Bartolomeus dikuliti hidup-hidup; Tomas terbunuh dengan tombak di Coromandel; Yudas terbunuh dengan panah; Simon disalib di Persia; Andreas disalib; Matias dilempari batu dan dipenggal; Barnabas dilempari batu sampai mati oleh orang Yahudi di Salamis; Paulus dipenggal di Roma di bawah pemerintahan Nero.
Question: 120. Have We a Historical Record of the Deaths of the Apostles?
The records of their end are found in traditions preserved by the early Church. Matthew, was martyred in Ethiopia; Mark in Alexandria, Egypt; Luke was hanged on an olive tree in Greece; John, after many perils, died a natural death in Ephesus; Peter was crucified in Rome, head downwards; James the Great beheaded at Jerusalem; James the Less beaten to death with a fuller's club in the temple grounds; Philip hanged at Hieropolis; Bartholomew flayed alive; Thomas slain with a lance at Coromandel; Jude killed with arrows; Simeon crucified in Persia; Andrew crucified; Matthias stoned and beheaded; Barnabas stoned to death by Jews at Salamis; Paul beheaded at Rome under Nero.
