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. Each month we read all four books. Make sure you're subscribed as we are finishing

up the book of Luke over the next few days and jumping into Mark. And here's how it works.

I'm going to 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 July 24th, day 24 of this month. And I'll be reading

Luke chapters 19 through 21. And this month I'm reading from the CSB. Luke 19.

He entered Jericho and was passing through. There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief

tax collector and he was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because

of the crowd since he was a short man. So running ahead, he climbed up a sicklemore tree to see

Jesus since he was about to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him,

Zacchaeus hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house. So we

quickly came down and welcomed him joyfully. All who saw it began to complain. He's gone to stay

with a sinful man. But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, look, I'll give half of my

possessions to the poor Lord. And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I'll pay back four times

as much. Today, salvation has come to this house. Jesus told him because he too is a son of Abraham.

For the son of man has come to seek and to save the lost. As they were listening to this,

he went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God

was going to appear right away. Therefore, he said, a noble man traveled to a far country to

receive for himself authority to be king and then to return. He called ten of his servants,

gave them ten minutes and told them, engage in business until I come back. But his subjects hated

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