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 St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston, West Virginia.

Okay, so when we get started here,

in just a few minutes, we're going to be picking up in John, chapter 1, verse 35, is where we're going to be.

Picking up where we left off last time.

And as I usually say at the beginning of these, though it isn't at the moment, soon,

the first Bible study on John will be available on the Internet where I talk about the Gospel,

according to St. John in general. That'll be available on the internet where I talk about the gospel, according to St. John in general,

that'll be available there. Catching us up to where we are now is pretty quick because

we've only gone through 34 verses. We went through the first section of chapter one of St. John's

gospel was sort of the poetic prologue sort of introduction,

where he sort of set up the different themes that we're going to see throughout the book.

And then we've just begun, actually not with Jesus himself, but with St. John the Forerunner,

St. John the Baptist, who's been baptizing in the Jordan River.

And we've seen a number of things trying to clarify

both who he is in general

and who he is in relationship to Jesus as the Messiah.

And we've seen that not only has St. John himself denied that he is the Messiah,

but he has indicated fairly clearly that Jesus is.

And so we're going to get back into, we're going to continue with that theme here

when we pick up.

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