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 started, just meant we started starting chapter 11, verse one,

where we left off last time.

And as usual, I'll point out that by the time you're hearing this,

if you're hearing it on the internet, my first Bible study on the Gospel of John will already be there available to you for, if you want to listen again to

the introduction to the whole book. We're kind of at a transition point here now in the

Gospel of John. I think I now in the Gospel of John.

I think I mentioned in the first lecture that St. John's Gospel, like all the Gospels,

has sometimes been described as a passion narrative with a long prologue, that really the focus of each of the Gospels is on the events surrounding Christ's death and resurrection.

That could be taken too far, especially in our Western Christian culture.

You know, there's one New Testament scholar who talks about when he was in undergraduate

in one of his first New Testament classes.

They had these topics assigned to them to write about.

They're supposed to write about the significance of.

So somebody got the significance of Jesus' birth and somebody got the

significance of Jesus' death and somebody got the significance of Jesus' resurrection and somebody

got the ascension. He got aside the significance of Jesus' life. And he experienced that with

some dread because he didn't know exactly what he was supposed to do with that

and that's because again our western christian culture you know you get some stuff about jesus

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