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, and the miracles. And just remember or

maybe you're here in this for the first time there's actually a free reading

plan for January, February, March. So even if you just jumped in with us to start the Book of Matthew,

you should go download that free reading plan

so that you can follow along.

And when you have time, maybe in April or May or later this summer you can actually go back and read

Mark and John as well you get that at Annie F Downs.com slash Gospels it's also

linked in the show notes below so here is how this works I'm gonna read to read one chapter to you today. You can

listen or read along in your own Bible and then I'll mention the verse or the idea

that stood out to me and then I'll pray and that's it. We'd love to hear what stood

out to you. It has been so fun to hear what stands out to y'all every day.

I mean, it is something I check on Instagram every single day.

Those conversations are over at our Instagram account. Let's read the Gospels.

Make sure you're following there

and chatting with our friends about what you're hearing how we're all hearing the

same chapter what stood out to you it is it has been really beautiful honestly

to see what the Holy Spirit brings to each of our minds

individually as we hear a chapter.

It's awesome.

So today's February 8th, and I'll be reading Matthew 2 from the new international version.

Matthew 2.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,

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