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.

In just a minute, we'll be starting at the beginning of chapter 9, the gospel according

to St. John.

And just to sort of briefly get us caught up.

I'll give my non-introduction, introduction again, that someday, maybe not soon, but someday,

the first Bible study of the Gospel of John will be available online.

So by the time anyone else is hearing this, it will be.

But not yet.

Apparently, I took my time in Luke.

So if you want to hear my introduction to the gospel as a whole, you will eventually be able to go there and hear that again.

But just to get us cut up with where we were,

we mentioned before that in St. John's Gospel is sort of structured around a series of visits

that Jesus makes from Galilee to Jerusalem

generally connected with the Jewish feasts on their festival calendar.

And we were in the midst of Jesus' visit during the Feast of Tabernacles.

And during that feast, he had... of Jesus' visit during the Feast of Tabernacles.

And during that feast, he had had yet another confrontation with the Pharisees and some of the other Jewish authorities and chief priests.

This had already been brewing from a previous visit during which he had healed a paralyzed man on the Sabbath. They were still angry with him about that, as we saw. And so when he came back,

things sort of took off and escalated from there. Jesus has been preaching very publicly in the

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