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 picking up in Luke chapter 7 verse 36, because we stopped in the middle of the

chapter last time.

Just do very quickly get us caught up again to where we were, where we left off.

We are at the point where Jesus has been continuing to travel to the villages around Galilee.

He's also been, last time he was in the city of Copernum,

which as we said was sort of the actual city city,

the fixed city in that part of Galilee, near the Sea of Galilee,

whereas the villages we've been talking about

are sort of little encampments almost that pop up at various

points around the harvest seasons, around the harvesting of different crops or around different

other types of work.

And so they're sort of seasonal.

They're not always necessarily the exact same place.

And these are where the peasants who are sort of working the fields or working on building projects or that kind of thing, this is where they will live during the period of that labor.

But it's not sort of a place where they're building stone buildings, you know, that we're going to find

ruins of Copernum, however, is a settlement.

It's an actual city.

It's got the stone buildings, permanent buildings.

It's sort of the various accoutreement of a Roman city at that time there in Galilee.

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