offer at the meat market, just because it was meat left over after a heathen sacrifice. The people of northern Turkey must have thought that there was something very suspicious about the followers of Jesus. Stories began to circulate about them. It was said that they worshipped a criminal—one who had been tried before a Roman proconsul, who had been found guilty and had been executed by the traitor’s death of crucifixion. We can understand why people were highly suspicious of anyone who revered the