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 with Luke 9 verse 49.

I know it's been a few weeks.

So we got lented.

But we left off. We just finished finished verse 48 so Luke 9 verse 49 here in a minute when we start

and uh before i do our sort of catch-up introduction.

There's something that's come up in passing a couple of times already,

and it's going to come up again tonight, so I was going to talk about it a little to kind of reorient us on this

because it's important in terms of understanding,

not just St. Luke's gospel but all of the

Gospels and that's I think I talked about it in our original introduction on

Matthew but that's been a while over a year so I'd bring it up again and I drew this

clever little graph here to show it.

But we have to remember that there are essentially two contexts when we read the gospel.

We talk about how we need to interpret all the way through.

We've talked about how we need to interpret the scriptures in context.

We need to understand what they meant at the time.

We need to understand what's going on in Judea when Jesus is speaking to these people

and who these people are, who he's speaking to, and what kind of lives they live,

in order to understand what it is that he's communicating. But we really have two

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