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 going to pick up here in Luke chapter 18, verse 15.

And by way of my usual non-introduction introduction,

if you want to hear from way back when, many moons ago,

when we had the introduction to the Gospel of Luke,

that's back in the very first Bible study.

It's available on the website.

To sort of get us caught up to where we are right now.

We have now now spent a considerable amount of time in Judea.

We talked about how sort of it broad strokes.

What we have in St. Luke's Gospel is after the beginning, we read about the birth of St. John the forerunner, St. John the Baptist, and the birth of Christ. After that sort of prologue,

we've seen Christ's ministry begin in Galilee, and then his journey through Samaria down to Judea and now we've

seen his sort of teaching in Judea while he's on his way to Jerusalem. We are getting much

closer to Jerusalem now. In fact, probably before we finish this evening, we'll be at least on the outskirts of the city.

And as I said, since Jesus has come to Judea, we've been reading sort of a series of sections from St. Luke,

describing sort of aspects of his teaching, recountings of his teaching.

We had the dinner party at the Pharisees house. We had some other interactions with the Pharisees.

We've had some interactions with his disciples and with the people who are following him along the way.

And we're sort of in the midst of one of those right now.

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