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A. Cilliers Breitenbach, a kind of modern William Ramsey, knows the southern Turkish scene, archaeology, roads, gravestones etc and reckons that Iconium, Lystra and Derbe are the key places. I can\u2019t compete with his specialist knowledge, but I do note that Pisidian Antioch was known as \u2018New Rome\u2019, and was a major centre of imperial cult. And I do think that those three cities at least, no doubt with local variations, were all facing the same problems. From the point of view of zealous Torah-observant Jesus-followers in Jerusalem, we have to see it like this: the non-Jesus-believing Jews in Jerusalem would be looking at the Jesus-followers and saying \u2018So \u2013 your friends out in the provinces are teaching people they don\u2019t need to obey Torah? That\u2019s precisely the kind of thing that will delay God\u2019s coming kingdom! Get them into line, and quickly, or we\u2019ll know you are just as disloyal as they are!\u2019<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"