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He was the only apostle who escaped a violent death" (Foxe's Book of Martyrs). The Emperor Domitian reigned as Roman Emperor from 81 to 96 A.D. He likely banished John to the island of Patmos, in 95 A.D., with the hope that he would die on the island.
The date of the Apostle John's death seems to typically be put at around AD 100. However, the accounts I've found only attribute this to 'tradition'. For example, this article How did the apostle John die? says "tradition gives us a few theories [...] He died as an old man sometime after AD 98[.]" This article references Foxe's Book of Martyrs ...
Previous to this, according to Tertullian's testimony (De praescript., xxxvi), John had been thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil before the Porta Latina at Rome without suffering injury. After Domitian's death the Apostle returned to Ephesus during the reign of Trajan, and at Ephesus he died about A.D. 100 at a great age.
Meeting Apostle Paul. After the Apostle Paul spends three years in Arabia being taught by Christ he returns to Damascus and then Jerusalem. Paul's conversion is vouched for by Barnabas who personally brings him to the apostles. After meeting the apostles he stays with Peter for fifteen days (Acts 9:26 - 28, Galatians 1:17 - 18). 37 to 38 A.D.
The apostle John was later freed, possibly due to old age, and he returned to what is now Turkey. He died as an old man sometime after AD 98, the only apostle to die peacefully. We don't need to know how John died, only that he was not ashamed of Christ (see Luke 9:26) and was willing to die for his faith.
John's verses suggest, but do not clearly state, that the apostle would meet his end through crucifixion. The phrase "stretch out your hands" does not necessarily mean his death was by a cross. The phrase could also mean that the he would have his outstretched arms bound, requiring someone else dress him before being led to his execution.
The first is that Joseph Smith reported that the Apostle John (along with Peter and James) appeared to him and Oliver Cowdery in 1829. LDS historians generally hold that John, unlike the others, was not resurrected for this appearance, but rather "translated," that is, physically changed by God from a mortal to immortal being. As McConkie writes:
The only book of the New Testament that directly covers church history, The Acts of the Apostles, ends in about 61. Assuming Johannine authorship of I John, II John, and III John, all three would predate the boiling incident. The remaining Johannine literature - Gospel of John and Revelation - would not be expected to mention it either.
According to Catholic tradition St. Peter was the oldest person amongst the Apostles; while St. John was the youngest apostle. John the Apostle (6 AD– 100AD) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he was the son of Zebedee and Salome.
I've heard in a sermon that there is a story about Apostle John's last days, when he was working in Ephesus. The story tells that usually, at the Lord's Supper, John was invited to give a little speech about the church life, and his words was almost always: "Little children, I tell you to love one another".