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.

We were picking up in Luke 1 verse 39, where we left off last time, last week.

So, again, this will be on the Internet.

So if you want the introduction to Luke, it's in last week's Bible study.

I'll reiterate all that because it was probably, what, about half an hour?

But just to catch us up, but there's not that much catch up because we just started last week.

We're still in chapter one.

What's happened so far is that we had Luke's preface where he talked about how he was writing this

under the patronage of Theophilus.

He was writing it for him.

He was compiling through all the evidence and eyewitness testimony and everything

that he had available to sort of compose

one thorough account

of the life and death

and resurrection of Christ.

We talked about how Luke is the first

part of a two-volume work

with the book of Acts, that Luke

and Axe are really sort of volume one and

volume two. And so far in Luke, Luke has sort of established his characters. First we met

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