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.

I encourage you no matter where you are in your faith journey, stick with us.

We've got what, 33 days down and about 50 to go the best way to be committed is to

subscribe to this podcast so it just drops in the feed for you every day and

invite someone to join you we finish better when we finish together. And here's how it works. I'm actually

going to read one chapter to you today. You can listen, read along in your own Bible, and

then I'll mention a verse or an idea that stood out to me and then I'll pray and that's it.

Another way to finish together is by being in these conversations that are

happening over on Instagram at Let's Read the Gospels. Make sure you're following there,

chat it up with us as we hear the same chapter today and tell us what stood out to you. So today it's

February 2nd and I'll be reading Mark 12 from the new international version.

Mark 12.

Jesus then began to speak to them in parables.

A man planted a vineyard.

He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower.

Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to

another place. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from

them some of the fruit of the vineyard, but they seized him, beat him and

sent him away empty-handed.

Then he sent another servant to them.

They struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.

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