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're going to be picking up in Luke chapter 10 verse 25, which will be the Peral of Good Samaritan.

And once again, I'll say my usual that if you missed it or you just want to hear it again,

if you listen to on the website the first Bible study on Luke, you'll hear my long rambling introduction to the gospel of Luke.

But I'm not going to go through all that again.

But just to kind of get us caught up to where we were last time,

we just last week, we reached sort of a transition point in the gospel of Luke where

Jesus had been teaching in Galilee. We talked about how he was sort of using the city of

Copernum, which was on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. That was sort of his base of operations.

Peter had his home there,

his family there. And from there, Jesus and his disciples were going out and preaching in the little sort of pop-up villages that we talked about

that sort of followed the harvest and followed other sources of labor

in the area around Galilee.

And so Jesus was traveling and preaching.

There were fairly big crowds of people following him.

As I said, we reached this transition last week where Jesus

began his journey to the city of Jerusalem. And we talked about how that journey from Galilee

south to Judea and Jerusalem in particular took him through Samaria.

And so we saw that Jesus sent out the 70 or the 72.

We talked about how numbers get a little shaky in Greek sometimes, but he set out the 70 ahead of him to go to the villages and the towns before he got there to preach and

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