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.

And when we get started here in just a minute,

we're going to be, we're right in the middle of Luke chapter 8.

Let me start here in just a minute.

We'll be starting with verse 16.

So it gets back up to speed because it's been a little bit since we got together. And of course, once again, if you want to hear my whole introduction to Luke, you can go listen to that in the first Bible study on the website and hear me talk

to your heart's content. But just to sort of quickly catch us up,

we're basically right in the middle of Jesus' teaching ministry in Galilee. As we said, he's

been traveling to various villages.

That Copernum is sort of the major city there that's on the Sea of Galilee.

That's where Peter lived. That's where his mother-in-law lived.

That's where his family was.

That's sort of the major settled city. And then we talked

about how there were sort of all these villages in Galilee that would sort of pop up and

disappear as the harvest happened and as various sort of day laborers, essentially the peasants

were working as day laborers doing this or that

or the other following the harvests around. And so those villages would sort of pop up and

it disappear throughout that area. And so we've seen Jesus with his disciples sort of using

Copernum as a home base, right, returning there

relatively frequently and then going out and preaching in the villages and then ending up

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