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. Each month here on

let's read the Gospels for this whole year we get to read all four books.

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the Gospels together and then get ready for 2024. So here is how this works. I'm going to read

three chapters to you today. You can listen or read along in your own Bible and

then I'll pray and that is it. So today is December 10th I'll be reading Mark

chapters 8 through 10 and this month I'm reading from the N-A-S-B. Mark 8. In those days when there was again a large crowd and

they had nothing to eat Jesus summoned his disciples and said to them,

I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with me for three days

already and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes,

they will faint on the way and some of them have come from a

great distance.

And his disciples replied to him, where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate

place to satisfy these people? And he was asking them,

how many loaves do you have? And they said seven. And he directed the people to

recline on the ground and taking the seven loaves. He gave thanks and broke them and started giving them to

his disciples to serve and they served them to the people. They also had a few small

fish and after he had blessed them he told the disciples to serve these as well and they ate and

were satisfied and they picked up seven large baskets full of what was left over of the broken

pieces about 4,000 men were there and he dismissed them and immediately he got into the boat with his

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