The New Testament records the deaths of only two of the Twelve. Judas Iscariot hanged himself, and Herod Agrippa I had James son of Zebedee killed with the sword in AD 44. Early tradition adds that Peter was crucified in Rome under Nero, that most of the others died as martyrs, and that John died old at Ephesus. How did each of the apostles die? The table gives the most common tradition for each of the Twelve, for Matthias, who…

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