Matthew 10:21

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Tertullian referred this verse to others than the Twelve, writing:

He has clearly announced with reference to the others, that they would be subjected to this form of unrighteous conduct, which we do not find exemplified in the case of the apostles. For none of them had experience of a father or a brother as a betrayer, which very many of us have.[3]

In spite of Tertullian's opinion, one may not set aside the possibility that such things actually did happen to the apostles. Tradition teaches that all of the Twelve were martyred; and yet the details are known in only a couple of cases; and Christ's words in the verse before us strongly support the probability, if not indeed proving, that the apostles did meet such a fate. Aside from that, Jesus' words are surely indicative of the bitter hatred that would prevail in the hearts of so many against his church; and, certainly, the beginnings of that hatred were borne by the apostles.