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.

Chapter 13, they were present at that season,

some who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

So we're still in the same context.

That season is, right?

What time of year is it when Christ is coming into Jerusalem?

We're approaching Passover.

So it's not just Jesus and his disciples who are traveling to Jerusalem.

Lots of people are traveling to Jerusalem, right, to celebrate the Passover. And so there are

some people from Galilee, right, from Galilee who are down there, who traveled like Jesus did,

traveled south for the feast. And they tell him about, right, not that Jesus didn't know,

but they bring up, right, they bring up what it literally says they're speaking to him about, right? Not that Jesus didn't know, but they bring up, right?

They bring up what it literally says they're speaking to him about.

The Galanes whose blood was mingled about the sacrifice.

I've mentioned this incident a few times before when talking about Pilot.

We were going through the gospel, St. Matthew's Gospel and St. Mark's Gospel.

That Pilot at one point got word that there was going to be an insurrection by one of the would-be messiahs at the Passover.

So they're coming there for the Passover.

They're talking about this thing that happened a few years ago at Passover.

And so he got word that there was somebody from Galilee who was claiming to be the Messiah

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