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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, the miracles.

So here is how it works. I'll read three chapters to you. You can listen or read along in your own Bible or online, and then I'll pray, and that's it.

So today is day 10, and I'll be reading Matthew

chapter 27 and 28 and this month I'm reading from the CSB version. Matthew 27. When daybreak

came all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put him

to death.

After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor. Then Judas,

his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the 30 pieces of silver

to the chief priest and elders. I have sinned by betraying innocent blood, he said. What's that to us? They said,

see to it yourself. So he threw the silver into the temple and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

The chief priest took the silver and said, it's not permitted to put it into the temple treasury,

since it is blood money. They conferred together and bought the potter's field with it

as a burial place for foreigners. Therefore, that field has been called field of blood to this day.

Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled. They took the 30 pieces of silver,

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