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.

And when we get started here in a minute, we're going to be picking up in Luke Chapter 19, verse 28, where we left off last week. We've now,

well, say as usual,

the introduction to Luke,

way back at the long ago time,

is still available on the interwebs.

For anyone who wants to re-listen to that,

since it's faded into the past,

I don't even think I remember most of it,

so I should probably go listen to it again.

But just to sort of get us caught up, I know I've said this the last couple of Bible studies, but now for sure, because we're about to read about Palm Sunday, we're about to read about the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

We are in the endgame of Luke's gospel.

Pretty much everything we've read up to this point has been leading up to this.

We've seen over the last few weeks

that Jesus more and more has been speaking about the time of his death.

He's been speaking about what he's going to face as he goes into Jerusalem.

Remember the gospel according to St. Luke is structured around essentially this journey that begins with Jesus' ministry in Galilee in the north and then

travels south on his way to Jerusalem approaching now the end of his life there.

Just a quick note before we start, because as I just mentioned, and this is this is we mentioned way way back when we first

started talking about Matthew I mentioned that Matthew Mark and Luke their gospels are

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