martyrdom · 70 · Eleutheropolis
Acts gives Ananias nine verses and no exit. He is a disciple at Damascus, told in a vision to go to Straight Street and lay hands on the man who had come with authority to arrest him; he objects, in the only recorded instance of anyone arguing with a vision on prudential grounds — Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints — is overruled, goes, and calls Saul brother. Then he vanishes from the record. The later account has him scourged and stoned at Eleutheropolis, and the Damascene tradition makes him the city's first bishop; both are late and thin and the row is marked traditional. It is kept because a page that shows a man performing the single most consequential baptism in Acts and then simply stopping reads as though the sources lost him, when what happened is that they never followed him in the first place.
The end of a man the New Testament uses for one errand and drops.