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• While the New Testament itself does not record the details of those journeyings, it is clear from history that the seventy disciples went both east and west, as we have seen. They went primarily to the Jewish communities scattered around the then-known world, to the lost sheep of Israel, and Aramaic was the natural common language for all those communities of believers. After the death of Jesus, as we have seen in the case of Thomas the disciple, they went again on other preaching missions, going even further east. And Aramaic, once again, was the language that was used. The Aramaic New Testament was what was preached.
• Thus, in the text of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament, we find the earliest form of the text. It was all that those early believers knew. The Syriac, or Aramaic text, was what was brought to them.