Cities dominate ancient history. They shaped the ancient world, and determined the standards of its thoughts and culture. Christianity spread first of all through those cities. Those who carried the faith from Jerusalem to Rome saw their world as a network of cities. Where else save in the lakeside scenes of the ministry of Christ, and the villages of the Decapolis, is preaching elsewhere than in the cities? This book introduces those cities within their historical context at the time of the apostolic church.