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  1. As the last living person who was directly instructed during Jesus' earthly ministry, John lived a long life and died close to 100 A.D. Evidence suggests the last apostle ended his days in the Asia Minor city of Ephesus.

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  3. Jan 21, 2022 · The most plausible theory of John’s death states that John was arrested in Ephesus and faced martyrdom when his enemies threw him in a huge basin of boiling oil. However, according to the tradition, John was miraculously delivered from death.

  4. Sep 1, 2016 · The answer: The authorities did try to kill John in a gruesome way – but God didn’t let them. The story goes that after the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (for whom John was caring), John was arrested by the authorities and taken to Rome, where he was sentenced to death.

  5. It appears from John 1:35-51 that Philip and Bartholomew believed in Jesus Christ as their Messiah on the same day that Peter, Andrew, James, and John did. Bartholomew was also known as Nathanael. Tradition reports that Philip died in Hierapolis, Turkey by hanging (A.D. 80).

  6. Sep 14, 2015 · How did John Die? As for the Apostle John, we only have church and secular historians to inform us but there is strong evidence that you can rely on these sources.

  7. Dec 17, 2019 · How did John die? John is traditionally regarded as the only apostle to die of old age. Some accounts suggest a couple others died of natural causes as well, but John’s tradition is the most firmly established.

  8. The theologian Tertullian reported that John was plunged into boiling oil but miraculously escaped unscathed. In the original apocryphal Acts of John, the apostle dies; however, later traditions assume that he ascended to heaven. Officially, the apostle’s grave is at Ephesus.