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#98 - "When in Rome"
| Episode Guest: Jerrell Jobe
GTI is going to Rome! In this exciting episode, Rich and Jerrell share about their time recently exploring and planning for our groups. At the end of the first century, all roads led to Rome; it was the epicenter of the ancient world. Even today, over 35 million people a year visit the Eternal City and enjoy a LOT of pizza and pasta! Our 2025 Greece/Rome Signature Tour itinerary includes Philippi, Thessaloniki, Athens, Corinth, Rome, and more. We will visit the Colosseum, Forum, Catacombs, even a Roman prison, reading Paul's letter from the place where it was written! We will walk the city like an open-air museum, remembering Christians who were persecuted and martyred here (including Peter and Paul), yet turned the city upside by the power of the Holy Spirit! To understand the context of Acts to Revelation, it's necessary to understand Rome. Walk this Story with us on the ancient roads of Greece and Rome, October 16-27, 2025! https://gtitours.org/trip/signature-greece-rome-2025b
Featured SiteColosseum
The Colosseum was built during the years AD 72–79 and the first games held in it in AD 80. Vespasian built the Colosseum over an earlier palace complex that Nero had erected, financing the construction by selling war spoils (probably from the Jewish victory). Vespasian’s son, Titus, finished the amphitheater, which was referred to as the Flavian Amphitheater, after Vespasian’s and Titus’s family name, Flavius. Not until the Middle Ages did anyone call it the “Colosseum,” a name taken from the Colisaeus, a large statue of Nero formerly standing beside the amphitheater.
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