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'll be picking up in Luke 11, verse 5.

Just to real quickly get us caught up to where we are right now,

we talked about how the Gospel of Luke has sort of pivoted.

The first part of it was about Jesus' ministry in

Galilee as he traveled there and preached. And then we've moved to Christ making his journey

from Galilee now to Judea, specifically heading to Jerusalem. He's now getting close to Jerusalem. He's in Judea. And we saw him staying with

Mary and Martha last time, which means he's sort of in the outlying regions near Jerusalem

on his journey. He's continuing to preach and teach and heal as he travels.

And so where we left off last time, as I just mentioned, as disciples had come to him

and asked him to teach them to pray, how they ought to pray, and he gave them the Lord's

prayer.

And then that's where we're picking up immediately after he finishes praying the Lord's

prayer for them for the first time.

That's where we're picking up in verse 5.

So unless anybody had any questions or comments or rumors or innuendos or allegations,

we'll go ahead and start here in Chapter 11, verse 5.

And he said to them, which of you shall have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him,

Friend lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey,

and I have nothing to set before him.

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