I especially enjoyed this paragraph today:
"Along the streets we met the usual men on their way to the fields outside the city walls. Paul walked at such a fast clip that I struggled to keep up with him. He was over twenty years older than me, a man of over fifty years, but I still struggled to match his pace when he was at full speed. Paul was the first to reach the top of the hill, soon followed by me. Normally we would have sung some hymns, perhaps the one Apollos wrote that I had put in the letter to the Colossians. Then there was a lovely new one Apollos had written about Jesus taking the form of a servant. But Paul was single minded in his intention this morning, and as soon as Aquila and Priscilla reached the top, he began to pray."
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Is this the Areopagus? Mars Hill? Just curious.
Ephesus. Here's the paragraph that precedes:
"It was not quite dawn as we emerged from Aquila’s house to the narrow stone street in front. Before long we were on Curetes Street, the main east-west thoroughfare of the city. It comes in at the Magnesian Gate to the east and goes all the way to the entrance to the marketplace, the agora. Every morning at dawn Paul met with any Christians who could and prayed at the top of Mt. Pion, which was located roughly in the center of the city’s heart. From there you could see everything from the gigantic Temple of Artemis to the north, to the harbor and theater to the west, not to mention the countless rows of houses inside the circuit of the vast city wall."
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