# Matthias, The Holy Apostle Of Christ, Tied On A Cross Upon A Rock, Stoned, And Then Beheaded, A. D. 70.

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MATTHIAS HUNG ON THE CROSS, STONED, AND BEHEADED.

Matthias, according to the opinion of some, was
of the royal house of David; and from his youth
was well instructed in the law of God, at Bethlehem.
He was one of the seventy disciples of Christ; but
shortly after the Lord’s ascension, Judas Iscariot;
having faithlessly departed from his apostleship, and
taken his own life, the remaining eleven apostles,
and one hundred and twenty men, through prayer
to God, and by the lot, unanimously elected him in
place of the aforementioned faithless Judas, an apostle
and ambassador of Jesus Christ, to preach the
Gospel, according to the command of the Lord,
to all nations, and to baptize the believers. Acts
1:23–26.

Afterwards he and the other eleven apostles were
scourged by the Jewish council, for the name of
Jesus Christ, and commanded that they should
preach no more in the name of Jesus Christ. Acts
5:38–40. But they departed from the council,
rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer
shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and
in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach
Jesus Christ.

After the separation of the apostles, who went
everywhere to preach, Matthias, according to the
opinion of Jerome, penetrated far into Ethiopia,
where no other apostle had been, into the very interior
of the land, yea, to the uttermost ends, to the
inlet of the creek or river Asphar and Hyssus;
where the most ignorant and barbarous people
were. Unto these people, sitting as they were, in
the deepest darkness and ignorance, there arose,
through the ministry of this apostle, the true light
91of the Gospel. But, after having there gained
many souls to Christ, he returned, according to
history, to Judea, Galilee, and Samaria; namely, as
in consequence of the dispersion of the apostles, the
Jews who dwelt in those parts, could not enjoy the
benefits of the ministry of the holy Gospel, unto
their conversion. Hieron. in Catal. Script. Eccl.
Isidor. Naucler. Sabell. and Anthon., in Hist.
Matthiæ.

Concerning the end or martyrdom of Matthias,
some write that he would not sacrifice to the false
god Jupiter, and was therefore put to death by the
heathen. Others, however, state that for the blasphemy
which the Jews said he had committed
against God, Moses, and the law, he was sentenced
by their high priest, first to be hung on a cross and
stoned, and afterwards beheaded with an ax. In
short, when he would not deny Jesus, his Savior,
but steadfastly confessed him, his sentence, was this:
“Thy blood be upon thy head, for thine own
mouth hath spoken against thee.” Thereupon,
having been tied on a cross, as some write, or conducted
upon a rock, as others say, he was stoned,
and finally, according to the sentence, beheaded.
Joh. Gys., in Hist. Mart., fol. 13, col. 2, ex Anton.,
in part 1. Also, Konst-tooneel, etc., in the life of
Matthias. Also, P. J. Twisck in the Bybelsch
Næmbœck, letter M. on the name Matthias, fol. 652,
col. 1, 2.

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