Athens, Greece

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Cruise-Day 3

We arrived into the Piraeus port of Athens on Wednesday and were able to find our private tour guide, Demitrius, outside customs without any difficulty and headed through the crowded streets of Athens to the famous Acropolis. Nearly every ancient Greek city has an acropolis, which translates to ‘top of the city’, where they built monuments to house and appease their Gods. Athens has the most famous Acropolis being built around 429 B.C. that is home to the Parthenon. It’s really hard to comprehend how old Greece really is!
At the Acropolis we also visited Mars Hill, where Paul shared the gospel with the Athenians, that night in our cruise cabin we reread the message that Paul preached to the Athenians in Acts , observing that the Greeks were a religious people and that he had noticed that they had a monument to the unknown God and he went on to tell them about THE unknown God with many coming to believe in Christ.