FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
Jerusalem, they divided the countries among them in order that each
might preach in the region which fell to him; and India (Parthia,
northwest region of India, from the Euphrates to Indus and India
proper), fell to the lot of Thomas.” He went to India as a carpenter, and
preached the gospel to the Parthians, Medes, Persians, Bactrians,
Indians, and Hyrecaneans.One story said that he arrived at the coast of Malabar in 52, and
established his first church there. Another story said that after
spending some time in the North, he went south, along the coast of the
Arabian Sea. And yet another story said he arrived in the state of
Kerala in 52, where it is believed that Thomas established seven
churches: Cranganore, Palur, Kottakavu, Kokkamangalam, Niram,
Chayal, and Quilon. After a couple years he went to South Tamil, and
Tamil Najd.According to a 2nd century Syrian manuscript called The Doctrine of
the Apostles, it says:“After the death of the Apostles, there were Guides and Rulers in
the Churches; and whatever the Apostles communicated to them,
and they had received from them, they taught to the multitudes.
They, again, at their deaths also committed and delivered to their
disciples after them everything which they had received from the
Apostles; also what James had written from Jerusalem and
Simon from the City of Rome, and John from Ephesus and Mark
from the great Alexandria, and Andrew from Phrygia and Luke
from Macedonia and Thomas from India, that the epistles of an
Apostle might be received and read in the churches in every
place ... India and all its own countries and those bordering on it
even to the farthest sea, received the Apostles’ Hand of
Priesthood from Thomas, who was Guide and Ruler in the Church
which he built there and ministered there.”His writings speak of the conversion of a king named Gundaphar, and
in the 19th century, some coins were discovered in Afghanistan, near
the capital city of Kabul, and in the western and southern regions on
the Indian Punjab, which bear the name Godophares, and date back to
20 and 40 AD.