Note 3 at Ac 21:18: This James was the Lord's half brother (see note 3 at Mr 1:19, note 2 at Joh 2:12, and note 15 at Ac 12:17). This James was the same head of the Jerusalem church that Paul and Barnabas had appeared before in Ac 15.

This is the last mention of James in Acts, and it is not revealed in Scripture what happened to him. The first-century historian Josephus wrote that James was illegally tried by the Sanhedrin and stoned to death. He dated James' death as occurring between the governorships of Festus and Albinus (The Antiquities of the Jews, Book 20, Chapter 9, Section 1). Festus died in A.D. 62; therefore, this would be the approximate year of James' martyrdom.