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• Ultimately, Christianity spread all throughout Europe and further westwards. It had spread as far as Gaul (France) and Britain by the first century. Therefore, as early as the first century, under the Roman Empire, Christianity had already spread several thousand miles west of Israel, into Britain. Why should it be surprising, therefore, if Christianity had spread an equal distance (several thousand miles) in the opposite direction (east). It should not surprising at all. Indeed, it would be surprising if the Gospel message had not spread in both directions. This, after all, was the whole point of Christ’s preaching mission to the disciples and apostles: