Come and study Holy Scripture with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the reform tradition,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So when we get started here, in just a moment, we're going to be starting in Axi Apostles

Chapter 16.

As I usually say at the beginning of these, by the time people are hearing this on the

internet, the recording of

all the other ones, including the first one, will already be up there and you'll be able to go

back and listen to my introduction to the Book of Acts. I'll also apologize to all of you and to the

poor fella at Ancient Faith Radio, who's going to be editing this later for all the coughing I'm going to do over the course of the evening.

But can't help it.

Trust me, if I could stop, I would.

But so to get us caught up to where we are right now, where we left off.

We've been reading about the beginnings of first St. Paul and

Barnabas together, their first missionary journey together, where they went to several cities.

They went first to Cyprus and then to several cities in Asia Minor, what's now Turkey,

and preached the gospel there and started churches in those cities.

And then we read that they were preparing to go on another journey,

and there was a little bit of a falling out, and so the two separated and St. Paul took Silas with him.

And St. Barnabas took St. John Mark, who as we mentioned before,

is the St. Mark who wrote the gospel, according to St. Mark,

took him and they sort of went on two separate journeys.

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