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THE HISTORY OF THE MALANKARA CHRISTIANS : M. M. NINAN Thomas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus . Mat 10:2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Mat 10:3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Mat 10:4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Thomas in Hebrew means "The Twin". So he was also known as "Didymus" which meant 'The Twin' in Greek. The Gnostics considers Thomas as the twin brother of Jesus. We have no evidence for this in the Bible. Early Church historian Eusebius in his "Ecclesiastical History" gives the story of how edessa came to be Christian. Edessa was a small Kingdom in Syria and at time of Jesus Abgar Ukomo was its king. Abgar wrote a letter to Jesus as folows: Abgar Ukomo, the toparch, to Jesus the good Savior who has appeared in the district of Jerusalem, greetings. I have heard concerning you and your cures, how they are accomplished by you without drugs and herbs ... And when I heard of all these things concerning you I decided that it is one of two things, either that you are God and came down from Heaven to do these things, or are the Son of God for doing these things. For this reason I write to beg you to hasten to me and 3
THE HISTORY OF THE MALANKARA CHRISTIANS : M. M. NINAN to heal the suffering which I have ... Our savior replied to Abgar and the reply was sent through Ananias. The letter says as follows: Blessed are you who believed in me, not having seen me ... Now concerning what you wrote to me, to come to you, I must first complete here all for which I was sent, and after thus completing it be taken up to Him who sent me; and when I have been taken up, I will send to you one of my disciples to heal your suffering and give life to you and those with you. After the resurrection of Jesus, Jesus did sent Thadues, one of the Seventy disciples to Abgar and healed him. This Thadeus was the twin brother of Thomas.. John 11:16 Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." Thomas is also known as "The Doubting Thomas", because he demanded an objective proof of evidence for resurrection. 4
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