Hi, friends. I'm 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, and the miracles.

We'll read three chapters a day, and normally we finish in 30 days, so each month we'll read all four books.

In February, we'll be a little bit different as we'll finish in 28 days, so a few days we will read a little bit extra, so prepare yourself for that.

Go ahead and subscribe today and join us as we read the Gospels together. I hope you'll be with us all month, but something we say around here a lot is you don't have to read or hear the Gospels every day to be changed, but every day you read or hear the Gospels will change you.

So I'm really glad you're here with us today.

If you are joining us for the first time, welcome, welcome, welcome. This month we will be reading from the English standard version, and we will be reading in the order that the Gospels are presented in the Bible with Matthew, then Mark, then Luke, and then John.

If you would like a reading plan printed out for you, just head to Annie F. Downs.com slash Gospels. Also there you'll find a Let's Read the Gospels guidebook.

This downloadable PDF will give you journaling prompts, scripture to memorize some of my thoughts of what stood out to me in this month's reading and the reading plan, which each month is a little bit different, so it's good to have in front of you.

Each month, we will release new guidebook pages. So when you purchase it, you'll also get the January pages of the guidebook, as well as February, and then all the months to come this year.

So just print it out, put it in a binder or a folder and follow along all year. All right, are you ready? Let me just share with you how this is going to go.

I will read three chapters to you today, and you can listen or read along in your own Bible, and then I'll pray, and that's it.

So today is February 1st, day one, and I'll be reading Matthew chapters one through three, and the translation I'm reading from this month is the ESV.

Matthew 1, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac, the father of Jacob, and Jacob, the father of Judah, and his brothers, and Judah, the father of Perez, and Zara, by Tamer, and Perez, the father of Hezran, and Hezran, the father of Ram, and Ram, the father of Amenadab.

And Amenadab, the father of nation, and nation, the father of Salman, and Salman, the father of Boaz, by Rahab, and Boaz, the father of Obed, by Ruth, and Obed, the father of Jesse, and Jesse, the father of David, the king.

And David was the father of Solomon, by the wife of Eureia, and Solomon, the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam, the father of Abysia, and Abysia, the father of Asaph, and Asaph, the father of Jehosephat, and Jehosephat, the father of Jorim, and Jorim, the father of Uziah, and Uziah, the father of Jotham, and Jotham, the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz, the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah, the father of Menasa,

and Menasa, the father of Amos, and Amos, the father of Josiah, and Josiah, the father of Jekania, and His brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon, and after the deportation to Babylon, Jekania was the father of Shiauteel, and Shiauteel, the father of Zerubabel, and Zerubabel, the father of Abiyud, and Abiyud, the father of Alayakim, and Alayakim, the father of Azir,

of Azor, and Azor, the father of Zadok, and Zadok, the father of Occam, and Occam, the

father of Elid, and Elid, the father of Elazar, and Elazar, the father of Matan, and Matan,

the father of Jacob, and Jacob, the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus

was born, who was called Christ.

So all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations, and from David to the deportation

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