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 we'll go ahead and get started.

As I mentioned, when we get started here in just a minute.

We're going to be picking up in chapter 20,

beginning with verse 27 of the gospel according to St. Luke.

I'll do my de rigour introduction.

That way back when, when we first started the Gospel of Luke,

when we had the introduction to the whole book,

that is still available online for you to refresh yourself with

if you don't remember any of it.

I don't know how much of it I remember.

I'd probably give a completely different one if I gave it again today.

Now, just to get us caught up real quickly to where we are, last time we saw, we talked about how Gospel According to St. Luke follows basically the same kind of framework.

It's the gospel according to St. Mark and the gospel according to St. Matthew in that Christ's life and

ministry and death and resurrection are structured around this sort of single journey that begins in Galilee

and then carries through sort of in a straight line down to Jerusalem where Christ's death

and resurrection occur. So, as we saw last time, we read about Christ's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and his

cleansing of the temple and the sort of immediate immediate drastic conflict that has brought

him into with the religious authorities. Leading up to this, especially once Jesus came

into Judea, we saw a lot of

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