“That Peter is struck, that Stephen is overwhelmed by stones, that James is slain as is a victim at the altar, that Paul is beheaded has been written in their own blood.”
Tertullian, 3th c. — Scorpiace
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2And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
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1Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
— Acts 12:2 —
3And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
4And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.