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• “Traditionally, he is said to have traveled outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, traveling as far as India. According to tradition, the Apostle reached Muziris, India in AD 52 and baptized several people, founding what today are known as Saint Thomas Christians or Nasranis.”
• Thus, as the Gospel message spreads East, we find that Syriac (Aramaic) is the language that was preached. It was the Aramaic New Testament that was preached. Quite apart from a multitude of other evidence, this alone proves that the Aramaic New Testament is the earliest gospel that was preached - in Aramaic, in A.D. 52, as far as India.
• Is that not truly amazing? It is a fascinating story which is almost entirely unknown in the west. And that story is intimately tied up with the Aramaic New Testament, the same Aramaic Peshitta as is used by those churches today.