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.

Let's go ahead and get started.

I won't run too long because I know we're getting started a lot later than we usually too.

But when we start in just a second, we're going to be starting here in chapter 7 of the gospel according to St. John.

Just to quickly sort of get us caught up to where we to where we were. Remember Jesus had been in Jerusalem. He had healed paralyzed man on the

Sabbath. This led to a conflict between him and the Jewish authorities.

And so he had left Jerusalem and gone back to Galilee. And in Galilee, he began teaching. We read

about the feeding of the 5,000. And then Jesus talked about himself and his flesh being the bread of life and we talked

about how Christ was was talking about his own coming death as a sacrifice and a sacrifice

that they would participate in through what we now call the Eucharist, where we

eat Christ's flesh and drink his blood. And we also read that from that time when he started

teaching that, many people left because they decided he wasn't in, they weren't in for that.

And Jesus finally, at the end of chapter six, asked the disciples if they were going to leave two.

And they said, you know, where would we go?

You have the words of life.

And Jesus pointed out that one of them was a devil, namely Judas.

And so as I've talked about several times now, but the structure of St. John's Gospel takes

place over several years, and Jesus makes several

trips back and forth between Galilee and Jerusalem.

And so we're about to see here as we start Chapter 7, another one of those trips.

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