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.

So start chapter 17.

Now keep in mind, we still haven't had a break.

This is another ongoing.

You may be noticed, you know, St. Luke's Gospel, there are sort of these discourses, right? These sort of units. Like we had the dinner party where Jesus told several parables and said several things.

Now we've got this that began, began all the way back at the beginning of chapter 15 is when

this all started. Right? It started because the tax collectors and sinners were all coming around and hanging around

Jesus and repenting and the Pharisees weren't happy about it.

They said, look what kind of people he hangs around with.

And so he told three parables, right, the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son.

He then spoke to his disciples about the unjust stewards. The Pharisees overheard that. So now he told this parable to the Pharisees.

Now at the beginning of chapter 17, he's going to turn back to his disciples. Okay?

Spoken to the Pharisees, back to his disciples.

Then he said to the disciples, it is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they come. So what's he saying there? You're going to sin.

You're going to sin. you're going to sin you're going to do wrong you're going to offend people right he re Jesus realizes that he realizes that we're sinful people he realizes that we're weak

he realizes we're going to stumble.

But woe to him through whom they come. Remember, woe, is it just what you yell to stop a horse?

Whoa here in Greek, this is a curse. This is effectively a curse word. But probably the cursed is he through whom they do come.

So what is this saying?

Jesus is saying on the one head, yes, I realize.

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