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Acts 12:1, 2 - Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church. Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword. [NKJV]

This is the only death of an apostle actually recorded in the New Testament. Accounts of any other apostolic deaths are from extra-biblical sources.

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The apostle who was beheaded was Saint Paul. Tradition holds that he was executed in Rome, around the year 67 AD, during the persecution of Christians by Emperor Nero.

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