John eventually died in Ephesus — of old age. The only one of the twelve to die naturally.
The myth that still circulates? A small number of early Christian texts suggest John didn't actually die — that he simply... disappeared. That he was taken up, like Elijah. Most scholars reject this. But the texts exist. And people have been debating them for centuries.
So here's what we know.
Twelve men. Called from the most ordinary of lives. Fishermen. A tax collector. A revolutionary. A doubter. A r