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.

So, verse 14. Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of him went out through all the surrounding region, and he taught in their synagogues being glorified by all.

So he comes back, lest you forget, the Holy Spirit was still with him.

The Holy Spirit doesn't depart.

And this is important because in the Old Testament, remember, a few years back,

we were going through the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would kind of come and go.

Remember we saw in the book of judges, for example,

Holy Spirit would come upon one of the judges that you'd do some great feat.

And then the Holy Spirit would sort of leave, mission accomplished.

Now we saw with Saul, first king of Israel, the Holy Spirit came upon him when he was

anointed as king, and then later on when he became wicked, the Holy Spirit came upon him when he was anointed as king and then later on when he became wicked the Holy Spirit departed

and in Psalm 50

David prays right after he's sinned

he says take not thy Holy Spirit from me

that's whatever his prayers to God.

Do not let that happen to me.

So what we see is not only did the Holy Spirit in Christ's baptism come to rest upon him,

but the Holy Spirit is dwelling within him continuously.

When he goes out to the desert for 40 days, when he comes back and he's preaching in the synagogues, right? The Holy Spirit is dwelling with him permanently.

So he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up back in his hometown. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath

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