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.

When we get started here in just a minute, we're at the beginning of Luke chapter 9.

We actually stopped on a chapter break last time.

Just very quickly, we're still basically where we have been for the last few weeks in terms of what's going

on Jesus is ministering in Galilee with his 12 disciples and then with other large crowds

that have sort of been following him around.

They've been using Copernum, which is a city on the coast of the Sea of Galilee,

sort of a base of operations, sort of a place they return to.

And then Jesus has been traveling around preaching in the various villages

and preaching to the crowds that follow him and teaching them,

as well as healing people, casting out demons.

We've seen a number of those miracles as we've gone through.

And so that's pretty much where we pick up again tonight.

That is continuing.

We're still at that same place.

Probably as we go tonight, there's going to be a little bit of a transition or the beginning of one,

depending on how far we get in the overall story. But unless anybody has any leftover questions or remarks or herald allegations or anything else,

we'll go ahead and get started in Luke chapter 9 verse 1.

Then he called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases.

So a couple of things already to reemphasize there.

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