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Papias of Hierapolis, writing around 130, said he had it from the daughters of Philip who lived in his city: that Justus, surnamed Barsabbas, drank a deadly poison and by the grace of the Lord suffered no harm. Eusebius keeps the sentence and nothing else survives. What makes the notice worth an event is not the miracle but its provenance — it is a second-generation report with a named chain of transmission, from women who were there, about a man the New Testament mentions once and then drops. He had stood with Matthias for Judas's place; the lot fell on Matthias; Acts loses interest in him in the same verse. The later tradition makes him bishop of Eleutheropolis and a martyr, with nothing behind it, and that is not recorded here.
The single surviving notice about the apostle who was not chosen.