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.

Go ahead and get started.

And when we get started in just a moment,

we'll be picking up at the beginning of Acts of the Apostles Chapter 18.

As I always say, by the time anyone is hearing this,

and as we speak we're currently

43 episodes ahead of what's being released on the internet so it will be a while

but what somebody is

is hearing this the first Bible study of the Acts of the Apostles will

also be available online to listen to to hear my introduction to the book and some of

the themes of the book but for now to kind of get us caught up to where we are

and where we're picking up tonight we're in the midst of St. Paul's second missionary

journey. St. Paul has taken St. Silas and St. Timothy with him. And they began by revisiting

churches that St. Paul had planted with St. Barnabas in Asia Minor, which is now Turkey.

And then after a dream, St. Paul was directed to go into Macedonia, and from Macedonia,

he has now gone down into Greece proper.

When we finished up the last chapter, we had read about St. Paul's visit to Athens,

which is...

Luke is with them now, too. Yes, and St. Luke is with them now too. We commented on that

because there was this switch from they, they, they to we, right? Because St. Luke, the author,

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