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.

We are actually at a chapter break.

It's been a while.

But when we start here in just a minute,

we're starting at the beginning of Gospel According to St. Luke,

chapter 22,

I will, our introduction will be kind of short today. Gospel According to St. Luke chapter 22.

Our introduction will be kind of short today because it doesn't need to be much longer.

As usual, you can go back and refresh.

On the internet, the first Bible study on the gospel according to St. Luke, we talked about the gospel in general.

Right now, we are, I know I've said this several times last few weeks that we're sort of approaching the end game.

We're coming into the conclusion. We've got three chapters left now.

And so, where we left off last time, Jesus had just given his last, his final sort of oration, his final teaching.

From here on out, we're going to see events unfolding. For the first half

of this week, which we celebrate in Holy Week, Jesus has been teaching in the temple. He's been

teaching the crowds. He's been confronted as we saw by the chief priests, by the Pharisees, by

the Sadducees, by the Pharisees, by the

Sadducees, by the scribes, just about everyone else, trying to trap him.

We've been told that they're lying in wait, plotting to get rid of him, to kill him,

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