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One tradition says James the son of Alphaeus was stoned to death (A.D. 62), and Hegesippus says he was clubbed to death (A.D. 66). Thaddaeus was reportedly martyred in Persia. He died via arrows. Tradition says that Simon the Zealot was crucified. It is believed that he ministered together with Thaddaeus.
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ . . . 2 Peter 1:1 (NASB) We already know what the word “apostle” means. An apostle just means, “sent one.”. The message is that Peter was sent. We just read Peter’s commissioning to shepherd the flock and to teach the flock. Peter was sent.
After Jesus died on the cross, the gospels record that Pilate allowed several members of the Sanhedrin, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, to bury Jesus (Mark 15:43; John 3:1; 19:38-40). Pilate also stationed a guard of Roman solders at the tomb after a large stone was rolled into place at the opening to prevent anyone from taking the body ...
Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”. And he began to weep. (NASB) Mark 14:66-72. Before we explain this passage we need to back up and discover what happened before Peter denied Jesus three times.
Most likely the apostles were still together in Jerusalem since Acts 15:2-13 states that Paul and the other apostles including Peter and James were together for a church council. The purpose of the council was to determine if God was saving Gentiles in addition to Jews. The conclusion was that God was offering salvation to both Jews and ...
Jesus told Peter that he would die a martyr’s death in John 21. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go. Now this He said, signifying by what kind ...
Length and Death of Herod the Great. Most historians today depend upon the work of Emil Schurer who wrote in A.D. 1890 that Herod the Great died in 4 B.C. 3 He also provides a detailed, heavily footnoted seventeen pages accounting for the timeline of Herod the Great’s reigned from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C. 4 However, Finegan has provided a table ...
However, we have discovered that sometimes God has determined specifically how or where we will die. Yet, Ecclesiastes 12:1-18 reveals that our end of life will eventually come. The passage describes in general, how we will die . It says that our eyesight, teeth, hearing, heart, and mind will weak and fail. That is the general way in which we ...
1 Peter 3:18-20 (NASB) 1 Peter 3:18 tells us that even though Christ’s body was dead His spirit was “made alive.” That is, He did not cease to exist. Conclusion: Only Jesus’ fleshly body died – not His spirit. Jesus was still alive and is still alive. We say that we serve a risen Savior, because His body returned to life.
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust . . . 1 Peter 3:18 (NASB) But Romans 6:23 says that we deserve to die because “the wages of sin is death.”. Every human is born as a sinner (Romans 5:12, 19). The fact that Jesus was without sin reveals He was not just a human. He was the inseparable God-man who died in our ...
