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Mark R. Fairchild

WELCOME SIGN FOR WEARY TRAVELERS. A doorpost relief carving from Sia, 25 miles northwest of Perga, depicts a person with a staff under a worn image of a menorah. Paul and his companions would have relied on supplies and hospitality from local communities of Jewish kinsmen in Anatolia to aid them along the 120-mile journey from Perga to Pisidian Antioch.