What Happened to Jesus’ Twelve Disciples After the Bible—It Wasn’t Pretty

What Happened to Jesus’ Twelve Disciples After the Bible—It Wasn’t Pretty The stories in the Bible have been told in many ways, not least through film. Among the many cinematic adaptations of Christianity’s holy book, none comes to mind that ends with freeze-frame title cards explaining the later fate of each character, in the manner of Animal House, American Graffiti, or Goodfellas. This is surprising, since that device could do much to satisfy our curiosity about so many secondary Biblical figures. Take the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ, whose lives Hochelaga creator Tommie Trelawny takes as his subject in the new video above. Be warned: things didn’t end particularly well for most of them. Peter, who “has to be one of the most studied figures in history,” seems to have ended his days in Rome. Christianity’s rapid spread there in the first century AD, eventually brought about a crackdown by the ruling class. The emperor Nero blamed the fire of 64 on Christia