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.

We'll go ahead and get started.

And when we fully get started here in just a minute,

we're going to be starting at the beginning of Chapter 3,

where we left off last time.

And for the folks here soon,

for anybody hearing this on the internet, the already, the first one of these Bible studies on St. John's Gospel, where I introduced the book will be online.

Either soon if you're here or already if you're hearing this online because it will be posted before this one.

And so I can get us caught up again relatively quickly since we're only two chapters in.

We saw that most of the first chapter of St. John's Gospel was the sort of poetic introduction

and prologue where St. John introduced a lot of his themes of what he's going to be talking

about as we go forward in the gospel. The second half of that first chapter was talking about sort of the transition between st. John the

forerunner and Jesus how st. John the forerunner began this movement but that the intent of that

movement all along was to prepare a group of people a group of disciples to then follow Jesus

once he publicly announced

himself. And we saw that happen. We saw St. Andrew and St. Philip encounter Jesus and become

his followers and invite their brothers and friends to also become disciples.

Then we saw in chapter 2, Jesus did the first sign in his ministry,

and we talked about how for St. John, instead of talking about miracles

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