According to the writers of the book of Mark, the disciples should be alive today. Nothing could hurt them, unfortunately they all seemed to meet an untimely end, i.e. something DID hurt them and they died. Whomever wrote “nothing can hurt them” lied.
Mark 16:18
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Luke 10:19-20
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Matthew 10:2-4………Mark 3:16……..Luke 6:13=16
1.Simon(Peter)………Simon(Peter)…..Simon(Peter)…..
2.Andrew……………Andrew………..Andrew(bro)……
3.James(sonZebedee)….James…………James…………
4.John(son of Zebedee).John(Boanerges)..John………….
5.Philip……………Philip………..Philip………..
6.Bartholomew……….Bartholomew……Bartholomew……
7.Thomas……………Thomas………..Thomas………..
8.Matthew(publican)….Matthew……….Matthew……….
9.James(sonAlphaeus)…James…………James…………
10.Lebbaeus(Thaddaeus).Thaddaeus………Judas the son of James
11.Simon(Canaanite)….Simon(Zealot)….Simon(Zealot)….
12.Judas Iscariot……Judas Iscariot…Judas Iscariot…
(Note that the three renditions as to who the 12 disciples were do not agree. OOPS)
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Mathew 10: 2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.5 These twelve Jesus sent forth
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Mark 3: 14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:16 And Simon he surnamed Peter;17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him:
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Luke 6 : 13 And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
- Peter was crucified, upside-down on an x-shaped cross. (nothing shall hurt him?)
- Andrew was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers, they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: “I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.” He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he died. (None of the “all the power of the enemy” can hurt him?)
- James: King Herod had James put to death “with the sword”
- John – died when he was boiled in a huge basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome.
- Philip, after preaching to the barbarous nations was not only stoned but also was like Peter crucified head-downward in Hierapolis, a city of Phrygia. His daughters also were killed with him in the same manner.
- Bartholomew Christian tradition has three stories about Bartholomew’s death: “One speaks of his being kidnapped, beaten unconscious, and cast into the sea to drown. Another account states that he was crucified upside down, and another says that he was skinned alive and beheaded in Albac or Albanopolis”,[17] near Baskale, Turkey. or….Bartholomew, also know as Nathanael, was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed in present-day Turkey and martyred for his preaching in Armenia, when he was flayed to death by a whip.
- Thomas was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church there. (Nothing?)
- Matthew was killed in Ethiopia with a halberd (a pike fitted with an axe head) or stabbed with a spear.
- King Herod had James put to death “with the sword” (“over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you??)
- Thaddæus (also known as Jude and Lebbaeus, an Apostle, and a brother of James the less and Matthew) preached to the Edessenes, and to all Mesopotamia and was killed under Abgarus, king of the Edessenes in Berytus.
- Simon Zelotes (an Apostle) after preaching in Maurtania, and in the country of Africa and in Britain was crucified.
- Judas Iscariot either gave the money back and hung himself or bought a piece of land with the money, then fell and all hiss intestines spilled out.
One of many inconsistencies in the Bible.
The bible has two different accounts explaining how Judas died.
The Gospel of Matthew says that Judas regretted betraying Jesus, and tried to return the 30 pieces of silver that he had been paid.
In Matthew 27:3-5, Judas tells the chief priests and elders, “‘I have sinned,’ he said, ‘for I have betrayed innocent blood.’ ‘What is that to us?’ they replied. ‘That’s your responsibility.’ So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.”
The 30 pieces of silver were then used to buy a plot of land that became a burial ground for foreigners — a place called the Field of Blood.
The Acts of the Apostles depicts a more dramatic ending for Judas, claiming that he used the 30 pieces of silver to buy a field, where he gruesomely died. “With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.” Acts 1:18-19.
A man named Matthias replaced Judas as one of the 12 disciples, the Acts of the Apostles say. Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.