Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast. More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.

Episode 2.59, The Fates of the Apostles.

In the last episode, I followed Paul to his fate.

Paul never met Jesus in the flesh.

But what happened to those who did? The 12 disciples and James the Just. In most cases, the answer is simple. The New Testament is silent, and we only have

stories made up decades or centuries later.

The Book of Acts, for example, recounts that the disciples chose seven deacons to wait on tables,

while they were engaged in more important things, like praying.

Of those seven, the New Testament only tells us the fate of Stephen in one of the great set pieces in Acts. For more on that, rewind to my episode 2.50, the first Jesus Club 2, Tribulations.

Let's start with Peter, Prince for the Disciples.

He was one of the inner cabinet of three, along with the two sons of Zebedee, John and James.

We last saw Peter at the Council of Jerusalem, six episodes ago, and a little more than halfway through the book of Acts. Peter

disappears from the book after this surprise guest appearance. The only allusion to Peter's

death in the New Testament is in the final chapter of the Gospel of John. Some scholars think this is an addition to the original

gospel. Be that as it may, Jesus tells Peter that the disciple is doomed to a martyr's death.

Quote, John 2118, Very truly I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished.

But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will fasten a belt around you, and take you

where you do not wish to go."

He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God."

In the last episode I mentioned Clement, traditionally held to be an early bishop of Rome.

In his first letter, Clement said that Paul had travelled to Spain.

Clement in his first letter also has something to say about Peter, brief as it is.

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