{"id":1256,"date":"2026-06-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2025-04-23T05:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:54:06","slug":"so-we-meet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"So we meet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the\u00a0height of Jesus&#8217; popularity, people from all over the region of Palestine\u00a0came to hear him speak.<\/p>\n<p>People\u00a0traveled\u00a0from the regions of Tyre and Sidon in the north to Idumea (Edom) in the far south; from the Decapolis and Perea east\u00a0of the Jordan River\u00a0to the central regions of Samaria and Judea west of the Jordan;\u00a0and of course from Jesus&#8217; home region of Galilee\u00a0(Mk\u00a0 3:7-8). (See the map below.)<\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0Jesus&#8217; itinerary in the Gospels includes these locations, I conclude that some of the folks who traveled to hear Jesus invited him to come and speak to them in their home towns.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative is that Jesus randomly chose the region of Tyre and Sidon to get out of Galilee.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1258\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SpendaYearwithJesus_Map_Regions2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1258\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SpendaYearwithJesus_Map_Regions2.jpg\" alt=\"Regions of Palestine in the First-Century\" width=\"273\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SpendaYearwithJesus_Map_Regions2.jpg 273w, https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SpendaYearwithJesus_Map_Regions2-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regions of Palestine in the First-Century<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the\u00a0height of Jesus&#8217; popularity, people from all over the region of Palestine\u00a0came to hear him speak. People\u00a0traveled\u00a0from the regions of Tyre and Sidon in the north to Idumea (Edom) in the far south; from the Decapolis and Perea east\u00a0of the Jordan River\u00a0to the central regions of Samaria and Judea west of the Jordan;\u00a0and of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}