Hey, everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and it's going to take restraint today because I want to go all the way down the history rabbit hole with you here, but we can't because we're running out of time on Galatians. And at some point here, we've got to be done. And by at some point, I mean 300, episode 300. I'm sure you all figured out at some point that we were going to end it right at 300. And that's true. Maybe some of you were thinking, like, wait, you just ran it to 300 because you wanted symmetry. Uh-huh. Yep. Yeah, because I thought 300 deserved it'd be cool forever to be like, we did 300 episodes on Galatians. It just sounds cool, right? But now some of you are like, wait a dang minute.

So have you been stalling this whole time with this post-Galations epilogue thing just to get it to

300? No. As a matter of fact, I have not. Not only have I not been stalling with this post-Galations

epilogue, in my humble opinion, I've been

rushing because there's so much more here that I want to go and look at and I want to

launch spin-off podcasts that go into church history and all of this other stuff.

And maybe someday I'll do that.

But the one thing I like more than history and church history is the Bible. So we're going to keep doing books of the Bible on the 10-minute Bible hour podcast. But yeah, I indulged myself a little bit with this Galatians epilogue. And I would have liked for it to have been, you know, two, three, four, five times as long as what it's taken. but 300 has been looming out there and we're going to be done at 300. Back to my original

thought, why I have to demonstrate restraint today. as long as what it's taken, but 300 has been looming out there, and we're going to be done at

300. Back to my original thought, why I have to demonstrate restraint today, because we're talking

about the last town that we are visiting in our little quick survey of the early history of

Christianity in the region of Galatia. We're coming upon our last town, that being Ankara, modern-day Ankara,

the capital of Turkey. And the post-Galachians history of this town happens to include

persecution, horrible persecution, some of the most well-documented, awful, violent, horrifying,

important stories of persecution in the history of the most well-documented, awful, violent, horrifying, important stories of persecution in the

history of the early church. But this isn't a podcast about the history of persecution,

so we're going to have to do the quick version of it, which I've already burned two and a half

minutes. I better just get to what the quick version of that is now. Anchora is a city in

North Galatia. It is sort of the tribal confederacy headquarters

where all of the old Golic tribes who migrated several hundred years before the time of Galatians

from the old school France, Gaul, all the way over to central Turkey. This is where all the

tribes leaders would mingle and overlap. As a result, it was very cosmopolitan.

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