Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse

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 now Jesus has returned to Galilee.

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine.

And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Copernum.

Remember, we're in kind of a mixed group here in Galilee.

So when it says

a nobleman, you know,

it's not entirely

clear here whether he's

a Gentile or whether he's

Jewish ethnically or where he is in that relationship.

Isn't the Pernium kind of a Greek city?

Yes, yes, it was built by the Greeks. It's on the coast of the Sea of Galilee.

So it's a major center for fishing and that kind of thing on the Sea of Galilee.

But it's also worth noting that St. John doesn't clarify.

Right? To St. John, it's not important whether this Galilean is Greek, is Jewish, is half and half.

Right? It doesn't half. Right?

It doesn't matter.

It's irrelevant to him.

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