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 in gospel according to St. Luke chapter 12, and we're going to be picking up with

verse 35. And so I will do my usual routine if you want to hear the, even though I've done it

many, many times in Luke's gospel, because we've been here a while. If you wanted to hear the even though I've done it many many times in Luke's

gospel because we've been here a while if you would like to again hear my introduction to the

gospel according to St. Luke you could do so on the website to your heart's content you can listen

to it before every single Bible study if you want to,

just to make sure you're ready to go. And then in terms of getting us sort of caught up

quickly to where we were, we are, again, we're sort of past, we've talked before a couple times about how there's this

transition point sort of the middle of the gospel according to st luke where we shift from

uh jesus ministry in galilee to his journey to and arrival in jerusalem in judea And so we're past that point. So Jesus is actually

now in Judea. He has not yet come into Jerusalem itself, but he has already, as we saw last time,

encountered some Pharisees,

encountered some of the folks of Judea and some of the folks who come out from Jerusalem.

And conflict has been escalating, shall we say.

And so while Jesus seems to have been mostly, at least the impression we get from Luke's gospel,

is that Jesus was mostly well received in the villages in Galilee, he has not been so well

received in Judea, where there are sort of different power structures in place.

And it is particularly the people in those power structures, particularly so far the religious

power structures who are not overly fond of Jesus, because he's been not only questioning

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