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. This month,

we're going to read all four books in 30 days. So that is going to be about three chapters a day.

It'll take about 20 minutes. And we're following the plan that is in the Let's Read the Gospels guided journal.

So go ahead, subscribe today, and join us as we read the Gospels. So here's how this works.

I'm going to read three chapters to you today. You can listen on your favorite podcast platform, or you can watch on YouTube, or just

read along in your own Bible, and then I'll pray, and that's it. So today is day six, and I'll be

reading John's chapter 16 through 18 from the new living translation, and we are on page 49 of the

Let's Read the Gospel's Guided Journal. John 16, I have told you these things so that journal.

John 16.

I have told you these things so that you won't abandon your faith.

For you will be expelled from the synagogues.

And the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.

This is because they have never known the Father or me.

Yes, I'm telling you these things now so that when they happen, you will remember my warning.

I didn't tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.

But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I'm going.

Instead, you grieve because of what I've told you.

But in fact, it is best for you that I go away,

because if I don't, the advocate won't come. If I do go away, then I will send him to you,

and when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin and of God's righteousness and of the

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