Jesus was born, raised and lived in Asia. This good news was taken to Europe by Paul. Then, this message went to the Americas and Oceania. India had Christians (3.3 million in the first century!) in the land long before the British and other Europeans came to India.

Jesus Christ is not a western God as He is supposed to be by the Easterners. While He is God in flesh, He was a complete man too. He was born in Asia. He was brought up in a Jewish family. He spoke Aramaic language – a close relative to Thamizh. He did not get formal education as poor Joseph and Mary could not afford it. (It is unlikely that He came to Nalanda University for education nor did He spend His life with Buddhist monks in Kashmir during His youth.

While the Bible is silent on these things, as the ideal man, He must have lived an exemplary life as the eldest son of the family). He ate simple Mediterranean food. He had no place of His own to lay His head. He took up carpentry as His trade from Joseph (and made light wooden yokes of high quality for oxen?). He had siblings – Joseph and Mary lived as husband and wife after the birth of Jesus and begat sons and daughters. Jesus is said to have taken family responsibility on His shoulders at a very early age and earned a living for the family. This might have been the reason Jesus could not have a formal education and made the people wonder “Whence then hath this Man all these things?”- Matt 13:56; Jn 7:15.