The Gospels Reflect Greco-Roman Biography

The Eucharist makes perfect sense as a context for the gospels. We're also there. People aren't going down to the local barns' nobles to pick up the gospel of Matthew. So to hear, they're hearing it read when they're gathered to celebrate the Eucharist,. Well, now we transition to Bethlehem. And you go to the ancient church there in Bethlehem, the church in Nativity. The Persians were at war with the Byzantium Christian Empire at that time. They swept through the Holy Land and they destroyed almost all the churches but this one.