James was caught by Herod, Herod captured Peter
They were sharin' Herod's outbreak of attacks upon believers
James would have to face the sword and Peter would escape it
They were not afraid of dyin'; they both knew that they could take it
These men were really killed.
Their executions appear in secular history.
Thomas preached in Babylon and India they claim
Then the local folks impaled him with a lance while he was prayin'
They were all about to die but they weren't thinking much about it
And their story didn't have a chance but none of 'em were doubtin'
Their executions were often very gruesome,
and word of their deaths spread quickly.
After the first few were slain, the others knew what was about to become them.
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Why oh why would someone die if it was just a hoax?
Why then take the awful risk to tell us Jesus rose?
Simple men from Galilee would not have spoken lies
To get enrolled in history books as martyrs for Jesus Christ
These men were not extremely well educated,
such that they could hope to escape certain execution,
yet they persevered...
Simon died along with Jude from arrows, spears or crosses
Someone gave Bartholomew a skin-removal process
Some of them were stoned alive like James the son of Alphaeus
And their stories are the evidence that none of them were doubters
Did I mention "
gruesome"?
It's quite possible that "[Saint Bartholomew] was skinned alive and beheaded" (
Wikipedia)
"[James] was martyred when beaten to death with a fuller's club"
Wikipedia)
None of these men
doubted that Jesus Christ, whom they'd personally known, was God, in the flesh.
A lot of guys were crucified for calling Him Messiah
Philip died and Andrew did and possibly Matthias
Peter's was a most unpleasant death for being Christian
They would turn him upside down and then go through with crucifixion
Paul he was beheaded probl'y Matthew did the same
Seriously:
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"Philip died on the cross" (Wikipedia)
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"Early texts, ... describe Andrew as bound, not nailed, to [an X-shaped] cross" (Wikipedia)
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"Matthias [...] was crucified in Colchis." (Wikipedia)
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"Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer." (Origen, per Wikipedia)
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"The Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church each hold the tradition that Matthew died as a martyr." (Wikipedia)
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"According to Christian tradition, Paul was beheaded in Rome" (Wikipedia)
Well, they threw off of the temple top the other guy named James
They were all about to die but they weren't thinking much about it
That's a gorey bunch of evidence that none of them were doubters
"James gave himself to God by martyrdom of death" (
Wikipedia)
This is a rather abundant amount of
evidence that these men knew something for sure.
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