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Top: The massive Roman Empire during
the time of the New Testament covered
much of Europe, all of North Africa’s
coastal areas, what we know as Turkey,
and the Middle East.
Left: Each region inside the Roman
Empire kept names it had already known.
So when Paul writes a letter to the
“Galatians,” he was writing to the new
Christians he’d met in communities like
Antioch of Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra and
Derbe, in what we know today as central
Turkey. And when Paul heard the
“Macedonian” call, he was being led to
take the message of Christ to Greece.
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