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The disciples were almost all martyred because they had been witnesses to the events described. They were not going to lie about things they knew to be true. Later martyrs had and have an inner witness that attests to the truth of the Gospel message. People in some parts of the world are still dying for their adherence to Jesus, so it is not just a past tense phenomenon. Their belief, like those of the past, is unshakable because in many cases they have experienced the life-changing power that belief in Jesus brings. Christians martyrs did not and do not commit suicide for Jesus or have a death wish, but simply do not deny him in the face of persecution and it is this that can cost them their lives. For Christians, Jesus died for them, so it is not too much to die for admitting to following Him.
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∙ 11y agoActs 7:58 says that Stephen was the first Christian martyr to die for his beliefs. In commenting on whether this really happened, Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says that we can never verify the martyrdom or even existence of Stephen.
In just one year, 782, King Charlemagne reputedly beheaded forty-five hundred Saxons who resisted his campaign of forced conversion to Christianity. Each and every one of these martyrs chose death rather than renounce pagan beliefs.
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