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, when we get started in just a second, we're going to start at the beginning of

chapter three of the gospel according to St. Luke, where we left off last time. And I'll do my usual and say that you can, if you go online to the website and listen to

the first Bible study on Luke, you can hear my long, not overly quick, but long,

introduction to the gospel of Luke. For right now, I'll just kind of get us caught up here

to where we were, which shouldn't take too long because we're only on chapter three.

But a lot happened in Luke 1 and 2, actually. Basically, we've had sort of a whirlwind

tour of the prediction of the birth of St. John the Baptist or St. John the forerunner, and then

Elizabeth, his mother's pregnancy, and then the enunciation to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel,

that she was going to give birth to a son, and then John the Baptist birth, Jesus' birth,

and one episode, the only episode in any of the Gospels from Jesus' childhood at the temple in Jerusalem.

Just a comment before we start on that. You will sometimes occasionally see books or documentaries or this kind of thing talking about Jesus lost years.

Right.

What went on during those years when Jesus was, that aren't recorded there between his birth and other than that one episode and when he reached the age of about 30,

which is when all the

gospels sort of pick up the story of Jesus. There's sort of a presupposition there, right?

That there must be something exciting, right? That went on there, right? That somehow the

gospel writers either just missed all this really important stuff

or better yet are hiding something.

We're all deliberately not talking about it.

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