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.

So chapter 8, verse 1.

I like that. They go back to the old King James. Now it came to pass.

Which is, it's a way of translating.

There's a, there's a, what literally says to the Greek is, and it happened.

And it was.

And basically, what that is, is it's trying to give us a sort of a disjunction.

Remember we talked about how that last story started with and then?

Because it was sort of building off of.

I talked out Simon's sort of an example of what Jesus was talking about, just talking about.

This, and it came to pass, is representing sort of a break.

And now we're starting a sort of a new section of the story.

There's sort of a disjunction here.

And so they translate that as now it came to pass afterward, right,

that he went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the

kingdom of God. So he's traveling all around Galilee, right? All the cities and all the little

villages. And he's proclaiming the gospel right that glad tidings is

a way of saying is a nice Elizabethan English way of saying good news or the gospel of the kingdom of

God and the 12 were with him and certain women who had been healed of

evil spirits and infirmities Mary called Magdalene out of whom had come seven demons and Joanna the

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