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• Now, if you have been following the story so far, what language would you expect the Gospel message to be preached in, to those early converts in China and Mongolia? Not Greek. Not the Greek New Testament. Instead, we find that, just as Aramaic was preached to the early believers in India, so too, Aramaic was preached to the early believers in China and Mongolia. As late as the 7th to 11th centuries, the Aramaic New Testament was still being preached in those countries far away in the east.
• Does that not suggest that the Aramaic New Testament was the earliest form of the text - the form that was preached right from the very beginning, from the first century, as early as A.D. 52 in India, and right through to the 12th centuries?