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After three months wintering on Malta and the final voyage through Syracuse Rhegium and Puteoli the Christian community at Rome sends two reception parties south down the Appian Way — meeting Paul at the Forum of Appius and again at the Three Taverns — and Paul takes courage as he approaches his imprisonment in the capital.
Acts 28:11-16 narrates the closing stages of Paul's long voyage to Roman imprisonment: "And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage." The Three Taverns was a way-station on the Appian Way about thirty-three miles south of Rome at the modern Cisterna di Latina. The two reception parties (the first further south at Forum of Appius) signaled the depth of the Roman church's anticipation of the apostle's arrival — moving the long-anxious prisoner to tears of gratitude at the divine providence that had brought him this far.
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