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.

We're going to be starting with Luke chapter 4, where we left off last time.

And as always, I'll point out that the big long introduction to Luke is on the first one of these Bible studies, the recording for Luke.

And so you can check that out at the website.

In terms of what we've had so far, we're still pretty close to the beginning.

So we can do sort of a quick catch-up.

We just left off with St. Luke's version of Jesus' genealogy,

which, as we talked about last time, came right after his baptism and was sort of giving Jesus credentials.

His credentials to be the Messiah, his credentials. In terms of the incarnation, we talked about how St. Luke's version of the genealogy in particular goes all the way back to Adam, not just to Abraham, the way St. Matthews does.

That was reflective of the fact that St. Luke has sort of a broader audience that includes a lot of Gentiles,

whereas St. Matthew's Gospel is aimed more at a Jewish audience. And so if you're a Gentile,

no matter what country you're from, whether you're a Scythian or a Parthian or a Roman or a Greek or an Egyptian,

you're descended from Adam. Right so somewhere in this genealogy, you can find your connection, your connection to Jesus. And so this is making a point,

as I said, about the incarnation. We saw in Christ's baptism, sort of the revelation of the Holy Trinity,

that God the Father spoke concerning Jesus and announced him as his son. The Holy Spirit descended

upon Jesus. So we saw the three persons of the Trinity. We sort of got his divine credentials there. Now these are the human credentials.

And so it's talking, it's reflective of the fact that Christ is taking upon himself

all of our humanity, all of our humanity. And that is now where we're going to pick up because as you can see looking at the

headings if you're looking at the Orthodox Study Bible what comes next is Jesus' temptation

may remember from St. Mark's Gospel and St. Matthews as well we saw Christ's baptism and

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