According to the following passage it was James, the brother of John (both sons of Zebedee):
Acts 12:1-2 (King James Version)1Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.2And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Answer:The Apostle killed in Acts (12:2) was James the Less, who was the brother of John son of Zebedee, through their relationship to their designated mother, the Virgin Mary. He was the first of the Twelve apostles to be killed, or the first of the Twelve Apostles to depart from this realm.
Ref: Matt:13:55, Mark 6:3; John 19:26-27.
St. Matthew wrote the Gospel that is attributed to him. Acts was written by St. Luke.
The apostle Peter worked the first apostolic miracle according to the Bible. In Acts 3:1-10, Peter healed a man who had been crippled from birth, allowing him to walk.
Yes John the Apostle had a brother by the name of James. He also was an Apostle but after the church in Jerusalem was established and persecution came up on the church, Herod Agrippa, a grandson of Herod the Great, had James killed (Acts 12:1-2).
Paul The Apostle was arrested in Caesarea.
Herod Agrippa I had James the brother of John killed (Acts 12:1-3). This Agrippa was the son of Bernice and Aristobulus, a son of Herod the Great.
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Stephen was the first martyr in the book of Acts. But i also believe that Acts also discusses the deaths of Paul and Peter.
Saint Luke was an evangelist and not an apostle. He is credited with writing one of the four gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.
It is Luke the author of Acts. But Barnabas was with them.
Saint James the Greater was killed by King Herod and the first of the apostles to die. He was martyred in AD44.
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The book of Acts was written by Luke, while he was in Rome staying with the Apostle Paul.