If you’re short on time, here’s a quick answer to your question: During Jesus’s lifetime, the Han Dynasty ruled China. This was considered a Golden Age, with advances in agriculture, trade, technology, philosophy, and art.

Recently, some scholars have claimed that the Chinese recorded some historical events, from the time of Jesus. Ancient Chinese writers seemed to believe that something unusual was happening in the world. There are records of something like an eclipse, and that happened when Jesus died on a cross.

In the next few decades after Jesus’ resurrection, religions like Confucianism will start to spread and take hold in China. It would be quite a while before Christianity came to Asia, but God’s plan for salvation is far-reaching.

More than 1,300 years ago, a Persian Christian monk named Aleben traveled 3,000 miles along the ancient caravan route known as the Silk Road all the way to China, carrying precious copies of the New Testament writings (probably in Syriac).