We headed west to our major site of the day: Tarsus, the hometown of the apostle Paul. Paul describe his hometown as “no ordinary city” (Acts 21:39). It was a prominent city in the Roman Empire during the first century, with one of the main universities of the empire located there. Our first stop was north of town on an old Roman road that likely connected Tarsus with the Cilician gates, the pass through the Taurus Mountains. Paul likely walked that road or an older version of it. Heading into town, we saw some ruins. One was a well claiming […]