Hi friends. I am Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These are the stories of Jesus Christ's life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, the miracles. If you are loving being in the Gospels with us, A, me too, But B, will you help us spread the word? One of the best

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chapters to you today. We finish the book of John. We finish the book of Luke. We've got one chapter

left in Mark. And so we're going to finish Mark and start Matthew today. In order to get all four books done in 30 days,

we read three chapters a day. So I'm going to read those to you. You can listen on the podcast.

You can watch on YouTube, or you can read along in your own Bible. And then I'll pray. And that is it.

So today is day 21. I'll be reading Mark chapter 16 and then Matthew chapters one and two

in the new living translation.

And if you've got your Let's Read the Gospels guided journal, we are on page 139.

Mark 16.

Saturday evening, when the Sabbath ended, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James,

and Salome went out and purchased

burial spices so they could anoint Jesus' body.

Very early on Sunday morning, just at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

On the way, they were asking each other, who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance

to the tomb?

But as they arrived, they looked up and saw that the stone, which was very

large, had already been rolled aside. When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a

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