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 start here in just a minute, we're going to be starting at the beginning of chapter 23,

the gospel according to St. Luke.

And I will give my usual non-introduction introduction that still to this day the first Bible study on Luke remains available on the internet.

If you want to go back and listen to that, Lord willing, as I said, we're going to be concluding the gospel of Luke tonight. So if you want to have a marathon, if you want to binge listen

and try to do the whole book at once, I wouldn't recommend that.

But especially if you're driving, you might end up going right off the road.

But that is still available there.

We are, as I just mentioned, coming to the very end of the gospel according to St. Luke,

last time we talked about Christ's arrest, and after his arrest, he was brought before the chief priests and the Sanhedron

which was the gathering of sort of the leading religious figures in Jerusalem at the time

they convicted him as for blasphemy which according, according to the Torah, is a crime that demands death as the penalty,

but of course they're not allowed to just execute people, even their fellow Jews,

because the Romans, as little as they cared about the Jews,

again, their main concern was maintaining order. And if you have the people living on your

land killing each other, that leads to feuds, that leads to all kinds of problems, that lead

to disorder.

And so, while they didn't really care whether the average Judean lived or died on a day or a day or a basis, they weren't going to sanction them killing each other, especially over

religious disputes, because again, that a recipe for for future disturbances and so

they now if they're going to do away with Jesus as has been their plan they've now finally got a

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