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, the miracles.

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So welcome to the second week of January. We started with the book of John and now we are working our way through Luke.

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

So today is January 12th, day 12, and I'll be reading Luke 13 through 15, and the translation I'm reading from this month is NIV-84.

Chapter 13, Repent or Parish.

Now, there was some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood pilot had mixed with their sacrifices.

Jesus answered, do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?

I tell you no, but unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those 18 who died when the tower in Salom fell on them.

Do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you no, but unless you repent, you too will all perish.

Then he told this parable, a man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he went to look for fruit on it.

But did not find any. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, for three years now, I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree.

And I haven't found any. Cut it down. Why should it use up the soil?

Sir, the man replied, leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it.

If it bears fruit next year, fine. If not, then cut it down.

A crippled woman healed on the Sabbath.

On a Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for 18 years.

She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her,

woman, you are set free from your infirmity. Then he put his hands on her and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

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