{"id":73853,"date":"2025-10-03T01:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=73853"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:10:17","slug":"the-art-of-speed-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2025\/10\/03\/the-art-of-speed-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Speed&#8211; Part Four"},"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>There is quite a lot of religious art and artifacts in the Speed Museum.\u00a0 Here are two paintings of familiar Biblical scenes for instance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/C6E0B148-D50A-494F-9EFB-CFF77774D5E0.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73856\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/C6E0B148-D50A-494F-9EFB-CFF77774D5E0-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/4F1FF48D-14AB-4B40-A8A1-CA7995F95AE5.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73859\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/4F1FF48D-14AB-4B40-A8A1-CA7995F95AE5-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/166697E2-5647-459F-8F58-C28EB1251F76.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73862\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/166697E2-5647-459F-8F58-C28EB1251F76-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/DF4C05D1-7B27-4533-8D5D-13A60DBEF762.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73865\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/DF4C05D1-7B27-4533-8D5D-13A60DBEF762-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/241D2CDE-4F2D-4848-A7EC-F452186436B1.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73883\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/241D2CDE-4F2D-4848-A7EC-F452186436B1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/3403FE3F-672C-4654-93E0-A43E176B14D5.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73886\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/3403FE3F-672C-4654-93E0-A43E176B14D5-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"1025\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the wedding feast at Cana, in a totally unlikely setting\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/0E03E098-ED00-4B24-98D6-C6C3D4A0B977.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73871\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/0E03E098-ED00-4B24-98D6-C6C3D4A0B977-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/F776FCEB-8181-4E62-B989-1A3D7E0AF4EE.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73874\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/F776FCEB-8181-4E62-B989-1A3D7E0AF4EE-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are also paintings of scenes from Greek tragedy\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/37993834-5D2C-42C4-8351-1439C521B88B.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73877\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/37993834-5D2C-42C4-8351-1439C521B88B-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/8A49EA65-AA05-47A1-A8B3-93E1EA739E9F.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73880\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/09\/8A49EA65-AA05-47A1-A8B3-93E1EA739E9F-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/10\/0903A368-773C-4B03-8259-ACE2714FA59F.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73895\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2025\/10\/0903A368-773C-4B03-8259-ACE2714FA59F-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" 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