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>> it's heavy. mm-hmm. >> it depicts the king -- >> mm-hmm. >> -- riding on horseback, and around the edge, the legend is written in greek: gondophares. >> and so where did this coin come from? >> these coins are found in pakistan. >> oh, wow. >> and gondophares was the -- the first, most important -- >> mm-hmm. >> -- of the kings that ruled in that area. >> do we know anything else about this figure, about this ruler? >> yes, we do. we know when he ruled, about 60 ad. >> that aligns pretty nicely with the time in which thomas, as an apostle, would've been doing his missionizing activity in in...

Would've gone down in history as a sect of judaism. >> it's one of the great ironies of the way we talk about thomas, that we call him doubting thomas, when actually, we should call him faithful thomas because what's happened is, he's gone on his journey, and in the end, he makes the right decision. he comes to faith. >> my lord, my god. >> doubting thomas might be the perfect apostle because he, in a sense, represents all of us. we all have doubts in the spiritual life, and all of us, i think, out of our human nature, want proof. ♪

He's on the side of the hill. he's not gonna be buried in the palace, but he's going to be buried in a great monument looking back towards jerusalem, as a reminder. "i'm the king of the jews, even in my death." >> he's the disciple famous for a lack of faith. >> seeing is believing or else. >> but he is transformed by the sight of the risen christ. >> my god. >> a convinced skeptic is the strongest kind of believer. >> an ancient tradition claims jesus sends him on a terrifying journey to the ends of the earth. he is martyred, his relics scattered, but did the most reluctant apostle triumph ov...

This is my blood," in the aramaic language, just the way jesus did at the last supper. >> what's compelling about the oral tradition about thomas going to india is just how similar all of the stories are. we don't often find these kinds of similar traditions in any particular region, particularly a region so far away from where thomas started. the fact that everyone tells the same story about thomas for 1,500 years suggests that there might be a historical kernel of truth here. >> according to the oral tradition, thomas sets off from kerala on what will be his final journey. the acts of thomas...

Is used to date the bone and reveal the age of the relic. >> this is where the samples are coming. >> yep. >> they're now positively, triple-positively charged through here. >> yep, yep. >> and they're going about 15 million miles an hour. >> in india, a tradition preserved in song, dance and the acts of thomas tells how the apostle came here to spread the word of jesus in the first century. >> i think it's possible, even plausible, that thomas went to india because we know that this was a fairly well-trod route, and we have a text that explains thomas' evangelical mission to india, and we hav...