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Day Ten Revisit Part 1 - Tuesday June 15th - Ephesus
On the bus at 7:00, headed to Ephesus. This is a huge site that has been wonderfully excavated because there is not an existing city on the site as is so common. Ephesus was a harbor town in the first century and earlier, but the harbor silted up and the reason for the town moved. There were many interesting sites here, but refer to the Wiki article for background. I will mention two: the Library, which had a very impressive facade, and the Theater, which was huge - it would seat 25,000. Using the accepted ratio of 10 to 1, that would mean that Ephesus was a city of 250,000 people.
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| Ephesus Library |
Ephesus was a very sophisticated city. They had stands with torches on them for 'street lights' (and you can see the holes and rings that they used to anchor them), they had a system of running water (with latrines) they had medical areas, and they had upscale neighborhoods.
Pastor Wayne taught in the Agora after walking thru most of Ephesus. Ephesus is of course the site of the church of Ephesus, which is where Paul sent the letter to the Ephesians. Ephesus is also mentioned in Revelations 2:1-7.
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| Ephesus Theater |
In Acts 19, the riot in Ephesus is described. Possibly started by the silversmiths in the odeon (smaller than the theater, seats about 2000) and proceeded like a Greek soccer protest through the same streets that we walked down to the theater (which seats 25,000). Standing on those ancient streets, you could very well imagine a crowd going through the streets, chanting, gathering strength as it went along, and people getting swept up in it. Kind of a mass hypnosis effect.
In Ephesus, there were four statues to four gods -- wisdom, knowledge, fairness/justice, and virtue. The book of Ephesians goes through and shows Jesus superior to all of them.
Dale's Pics for Day 10 - Ephesus: here Approx Miles Traveled Day 9: Bus 29.6
Travels Day 9: Kusadasi to Ephesus to Port of Kusadasi
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