Wednesday September 22

We're now in Athens for 3 nights. We can look up to the Acropolis from the balcony of our Room.







From Athens we travelled to Corinth around an hour away.

We stopped at the canal that now crosses the narrow Isthmus where previously there was a carriageway that allowed cargo and small ships to be transported from the Adriatic sea port to the Aegean Sea port at Cenchreae where Phoebe was one of the Deacons (Rom 16:1).

Corinth Canal

Votive offerings to God of Healing, Esklapeius

We then continued to ancient Corinth, a city that housed 500-750,000 people in its heyday.

There they've discovered a Temple to Esclapeion the God of healing that contained lots of votive offerings in the form of body parts that needed healing.













We also saw the Bema or Judgment Seat where Gallio ruled that the Jews had no case against Paul for preaching Jesus Christ (Acts 18:12-16). An inscription we saw in Delphi dates this event at 52AD.


We saw a further inscription here that refers to Erastus paying for the paving of a street near the Theatre. Erastus Is mentioned in Rom 16:23 as the City Treasurer and one of Paul's companions.