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 we'll go ahead and get started here in just a minute, and when we do, as we just said,

we'll be starting in the Gospel of Quirrearing to St. John, chapter 7 verse 37, which is where we left off last time.

And this time we were sort of in the middle of a chapter.

Couldn't be helped.

I'll say by usual, by the time people are hearing this on the Internet at least,

the other Bible studies of the Gospel of Job will be on the Internet,

so you can go back and listen to the first one if you'd like to hear my introduction.

Just to get us kind of caught up quickly to where we are now, we've talked before several

times about how St. John structures his gospel around sort of the cycle of Jewish feast days

and sort of laid out over three years.

And so we're currently in the middle of another trip that Jesus took from Galilee to Judea, specifically to Jerusalem for a feast.

In this case, the feast of tabernacles, which we talked a little bit about last time.

And Jesus went there even though the Pharisees and the other Judean leaders

were already not happy with him and were already talking about how they could get rid of him.

We saw he had kind of a confrontation with them again last time at on this occasion

and if anything that solidified their intent to want to kill him but from his words and the

answers he gave a number of the people who were there for the feast,

who had come from different parts of the Roman world to celebrate the feast, who were hearing

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