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 Barnabas was stoned to death by the

Jews;

 Paul was beheaded at Rome by the

tyrant Nero.

Now, again, a lot of that is based upon

tradition and word of mouth and things of

that nature, and yet when we read through

the New Testament, we do know that the

Lord told His disciples that some of them

would be put in prison, some would be put

to death, and according to Acts chapter 12,

we know that James, one of the twelve

disciples, was killed. Stephen was not one

of the twelve, but he was martyred in Acts

chapter 7, and we do know that persecutions

took place.

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