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.

Okay.

So we'll get started when we start in just a moment.

We'll be starting in Luke chapter 17, verse 11.

We stopped in kind of an odd spot again.

But we are moving in now on sort of the last chapter, using the term chapter more loosely.

The final act, maybe would be better, of St. Luke's

gospel now. As we've seen Jesus' journey from Galilee down through Samaria to Judea,

he's been coming closer and closer to Jerusalem.

He still has crowds following him,

but there have been a lot more Pharisees popping up at those crowds and other people who have been challenging him and questioning him.

Resistance to him is starting to rise.

And so we're sort of moving in now on when he's going to come into Jerusalem and

I don't want to give any spoilers but we already read Matthew and Mark so you kind of know where this is

where this is going so we've been in sort of the midst of a section here in St. Luke's Gospel where there have been a series of

sort of discourses by Jesus. Remember there was the one at the dinner party he went to at the

Pharisees home where he told a number of parables and got a little bit hostile with the with the Pharisees there

who are challenging him and then we've seen some other interactions with his disciples with the

Pharisees with the crowds and we're still in that we're still in that section now as it's drawing to a close.

And we stopped at sort of a break. Jesus had just been talking to his disciples about their role as leaders

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