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Were the Apostles of Jesus All Martyred?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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The Importance of Martyrdom in Early Christianity

I'd say once you get your head around it, it's actually very regular and it makes a lot of sense. I think the difficulty a lot of people have is that it's very different to how English works. So yeah. But once you make that shift, I find it, it makes sense. Yeah. Well, moving on to Martyr's and them, why is this kind of martyrdom in the history of early Christianity an important topic? It's an interesting topic because they wonder what happened to the disciples of Jesus after the apostolic period. How widespread was martyrdom? And most people have this idea that, you know, thousands and thousands of people were martyred

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