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.

So when we get started here in just a second,

we're starting in John Chapter 5, verse 16,

where we left off last time.

And just to get us caught up,

I'll give my usual non-introduction, introduction that this is mainly for the recording.

By the time this recording

is being heard by anyone,

the first

Bible study on the Gospel of John

will also be available in recording

for people to hear. And so

my big introduction to the book, you can go back

and listen to that.

If you need a cure for your insomnia or something else, a white noise machine.

But just to get us caught up real quickly to where we are, we just read the story about

Christ healing the paralyzed man who was by the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem.

This particular pool was associated with miraculous healings because that certain intervals an angel would come and disturb the waters and the first person who got in would be

would be healed and so Jesus encountered this paralyzed man who had been there for some 38 years which would be

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