Come and study Holy Scriptures 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 Reformed Church,

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

When they heard this, they were furious and plotted to kill them. No surprise there.

So they understand exactly what St. Peter just said.

There's no ambiguity here, right, about what he meant.

Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Camelio.

He's one of the most famous. Yeah. A teacher of the law held in respect by all the people

and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while. Okay Camelian, remember they gathered in everybody.

They brought in all the big guns of rabbis and teachers.

And remember that Sanhedron is mostly Sadducees because they control the temple.

Camelius is a Pharisee, right?

So he's one of those people who comes in.

Who isn't normally there at these meetings and presumably wasn't there.

I mean even modern Jews is revered Gamelius.

Yes, if you look at the Mishnah and the Talmud, it's full of quotes from Gamaliel.

Gamaliel.

Gamaliel, we'll find out later, was one of St. Paul's teachers.

When he was Saul, he studied under Gamaliel. And we need to remember the ancient world that this wasn't like oh yeah he taught geography

when I was in high school when you were someone student at this time you lived with them you worked with them

you know you followed them around you know it was you were a disciple of them you know the same way

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