1st Century Jewish Believers Traversed the Entire Earth with the Gospel?

In recent years, reports have come in from explorers, anthropologists and archaeologists that suggest Paul was not exaggerating.

The early Christians carried the good news everywhere. Even their enemies conceded that they "turned the world upside down".12 The apostle Paul could later write that the word had been taken "to every creature which is under heaven."13

Some puzzling findings raise questions, such as, who was it that around the first century of our era went to the peoples of India, China, Japan, Tahiti, Peru, Brazil and North America?

Who went there and healed the sick, raised the dead, even walked across water, calmed storms with an uplifted hand, gathered around him little children, and taught the message of salvation — as so many independent traditions of isolated tribes insist?

One such historical tradition was reported by Dr. Buck of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Dr. Buck wrote Vikings of the Sunrise. He was a full-blooded Polynesian and a scholar of the past of his people.

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