Why did apostle James die?

Answer 1

The apostles are thought to have died for the same reasons that Christians continue to die - the Gospel message offends many, and some who find it so believe they can extinguish it by eradicating those who accept or preach it. Jesus warned the apostles that they would suffer much simply because of their association with Him.

Answer 2

There are two apostles called James. James the greater, son of Zebedee and brother of John, was beheaded by order of King Herod Agrippa I. James the lesser, son of Alphaeus is a much more shadowy figure, and we don't know what happened to him.

Answer 3

As far as we can tell, none of the apostles actually suffered a martyr's death. Acts of the Apostles mentions the imprisonment and miraculous release of Peter, but does not say anything about his subsequent death, even though the book was written around the end of the century, long after Peter would have died. A second-century tradition was that he was beheaded, while a later tradition was that Peter was crucified upside down. In fact, the story in Acts is dubious at best, and the later traditions have no evidence to support them. There is no factual evidence to support Christian traditions about the martyrdom of any of the early Christians, with the probable exception of James, brother of Jesus. Paul was imprisoned, which lends plausibility, but no more, to the tradition that he was executed.

As for the long-term picture, the third-century Church Father, Origen, writing of the total of Christian martyrs up to his own time, states (Contra Celsum, 3.8) that there were not many - and that it was easy to count them.

Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) says that the ecclesiastical writers of the fourth or fifth centuries ascribed to their pagan predecessors the same degree of implacable and unrelenting zeal which filled their own breasts against the heretics or the idolaters of their own times. He says that the first Christians confessed that the greatest part of those magistrates in the provinces, to whose hands alone the jurisdiction of life and death was entrusted, behaved like men of polished manners and liberal education, who respected the rules of justice, and who were conversant with the precepts of philosophy. They frequently declined the odious task of persecution, dismissed the charge with contempt, or suggested to the accused Christian some legal evasion by which he might elude the severity of the laws. Whenever they were invested with a discretionary power, they used it much less for the oppression than for the relief and benefit of the aflicted church.

Answer 4

James was a martyr , and John is said to be the only disciple to live to a ripe old age. he died of old age.

Answer 5

James was put to death.