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.

Verse 27, but I say to you who hear,

now notice, even though he's speaking to this big crowd,

right, Jesus is also speaking to specific people within the crowd.

Right? First, it was aimed at the disciples.

Now it says, I say to you who hear.

So who is there there who doesn't hear?

He's not talking about deaf people.

He's healed them. He healed them a few verses ago.

He's not talking about deaf people. He's talking about people like the Pharisees.

Why don't the Pharisees hear what Jesus has to say?

Because every time he starts speaking, they're sitting there going, okay, how can we get him?

What's he going to say? How can we trip them up?

How's this wrong?

Where can I make an argument?

Right?

Right?

And so because of that, they can't hear,

they're not going to hear anything.

He has to say, they're not going to understand it.

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