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, and when we get started here in just a minute, we're going to be starting

in chapter 8, verse 12 of Gospel according to St. John.

And I'll reiterate once again why it's important that we say that.

We tend to just call the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

But the actual title, the actual Greek title, is Katato, Yoannes, or Katato, Jews according to.

Right? Because there's only one gospel.

Right, there's one gospel and it's the story of Christ's life and what he said and what he did.

But we have that story, that gospel story, according to four different witnesses.

We have four different sets of testimony to it.

So it's important to remember that,

that each of these is the gospel according to the author.

Which one is written before first?

The first, yeah, St. Mark's Gospel was written first,

traditionally in the late 60s, AD in 68 or 69.

Is the last one?

And St. John's is the last.

St. Mark wrote his, St. Mark was with St. Peter in Rome.

And we know that from St. Peter's epistles where he mentions him.

And according to church history, after St. Peter was martyred, was executed by Nero in 64.

St. Mark went to Alexandria, where he helped found the church there.

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