{"id":20885,"date":"2018-06-24T01:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=20885"},"modified":"2018-06-25T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:13:31","slug":"exploring-greece-israel-and-jordan-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2018\/06\/24\/exploring-greece-israel-and-jordan-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan&#8212;- Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Whilst exploring Athens, we decided to go visit the fish, meat, nuts, fruit and vegetable markets, which supply food to numerous restaurants and individuals, including\u2014\u2014<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-06-02-16.28.14.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20888\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-06-02-16.28.14-596x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"1024\"><\/a> Even God is setting up franchises in Athens, it appears. And he hires balalika players in his restaurant\u2026.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-13.28.05.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20891\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-13.28.05-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><br>\nnext thing you are going to tell me is that God inspired the NT to bewritten in Greek!<\/p>\n<p>The markets are remarkable\u2026\u2026<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-31-09.17.49.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2018\/06\/2018-05-31-09.17.49-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a 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src=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.35.27-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.40.07.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.40.07-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.43.05.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20909\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.43.05-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that\u2019s something you will not see in the markets in Jerusalem\u2014 the divine swine!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.40.39.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.40.39-704x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.34.34.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.34.34-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.36.55-e1529928770550.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20918 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/files\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.36.55-e1529928770550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.34.17-e1529928788646.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20921 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-30-12.34.17-e1529928788646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And not far from the markets, older Greek men like to sit, with their groceries and solve some major world problems while a goose walks by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2018\/06\/2018-05-31-09.19.32.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21002\" 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