John 15:8 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
James the Great was beheaded. He was falsely accused by a man, who then repented and was decapitated alongside James.
James had a more painful death, he was stoned in his early 90’s by being thrown from a pinnacle of the Temple at Jerusalem, then stoned and head bashed in with a club.
Bartholomew was skinned alive and was unconscious when he was beheaded.
Judas Iscariot took his own life because of betraying Jesus for thirty pieces of silver that he threw back to the elders.
Matthew 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Matthew 27:4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Matthew 27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Peter when he was taken to be crucified was happy that his wife would not deny Jesus and was crucified as well.
Peter was crucified upside down in Rome circa 64 CE because he thought he was not worthy to die upright like Jesus.
Andrew was crucified but was not nailed to a cross. Instead, he was tied to one. Andrew was in agony for two days while he preached to spectators.
Matthew died about 60 AD by being staked and speared to the ground. He preached the gospel in Africa and was killed for questioning the morals of the king.
Thomas traveled outside the Roman Empire towards the East to India spread the gospel and was speared by soldiers multiple times.
Simon was sawed in half.
Jude the Apostle, Martyred by being beaten with a club then crucified 72AD at the city of Turkey while on a missionary trip that went to Iran.
Phillip was tortured, had iron hooks in his ankles, and hung upside down to die.
John was the only apostle who did not meet a martyr’s death, he was freed from the isle of Patmos and went to preach inTurkey and died at 100.
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 15:8 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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