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.

My usual disclaimer, if you want to hear the big, long introduction to Luke's gospel,

it's on the website.

It's on the first Bible study on Luke.

And you can find it there.

By way of a quick sort of catch-up before we get started, we're only in chapter 6,

so it shouldn't take us that long to run through those first five chapters.

But we talked first, obviously, about the prediction of and then the birth of St. John the Baptist

and then about the prediction in birth of Christ.

And in the last couple of chapters, Jesus has sort of started his teaching ministry in Galilee.

He's been going into the synagogues.

He's been traveling for

place to place, healing people and preaching. And he has already received a little bit of

resistance from the Pharisees of the other religious authorities have started to sort of question

and challenge him. And we talked about last time Alex Perman. the Pharisees and the other religious authorities have started to sort of question and

challenge him. And we talked about last time how it's been portrayed a little bit differently

in St. Luke's Gospel than in St. Matthew's Gospel and St. Mark's Gospel. And St. Mark's Gospel,

remember, Pharisees are pretty much hostile right off the bat. You know, sort of immediately there and on the attack.

And he always made very clear that the Pharisees came up from Judea.

They came up from Jerusalem and were sort of bothering him in Galilee.

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