Hi, friends. I am Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four books

in 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. We will read

three chapters a day, usually in finish in 30 days, usually. So each month we're going to read

all four books. February will be a little different as we need to finish in 28 days. You get it.

So for a few days, we're going to read a little bit extra. Go ahead and subscribe today if you

haven't already. And join us as we read the Gospels together. You have done so good getting through

the first week. 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. This month we're reading

from the English standard version and we're working our way through the book of Matthew,

and then we'll read Mark, then Luke, then John. If you would like to grab the reading plan and have

that printed out for you for the month of February, or get our let's read the Gospels guidebook,

just head to anyfdowns.com slash Gospels. Okay, are you ready? So let me share with you how this is going

to go. I'll read three chapters to you today. You can listen or read along in your own Bible,

and then I'll pray. And that's it. So today is February 7th, day seven, and I'll be reading

Matthew, chapters 20 through 22, and the translation I'm reading from this month is the ESV.

Matthew 20. For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning

to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day,

he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle

in the marketplace. And to them, he said, you go into the vineyard too. And whatever is right,

I will give you. So they went going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did

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