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

Each month, we get to read all four books. We are working our way through Matthew. We've already finished Mark.

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And just remember, we say this around here a lot, but you don't have to be in the Gospels every day to be changed. But every day you are in the Gospels will change you.

Finish this month with us. Keep going. Keep going. 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 or online. And then I'll pray. And that's it.

Today is June 13th, day 13 of this month. And I'll be reading Matthew, chapters 21 through 23. And this month, I'm reading from the NRSV, Matthew 21.

When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethvege at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples saying to them,

go into the village ahead of you and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a cult with her untie them and bring them to me.

If anyone says anything to you, just say this. The Lord needs them. And he will send them immediately.

This took place to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet saying, tell the daughter of Zion, look, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey and on a cult, the full of a donkey.

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the cult and put their cloaks on them and he sat on them.

A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting,

Hosanna to the son of David, blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest heaven.

When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil asking, who is this? The crowds were saying, this is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth and Galilee.

Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

He said to them, it is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.

The blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he cured them.

But when the chief priest and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did and heard the children crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the son of David, they became angry and said to him,

do you hear what these are saying? Jesus said to them, yes, have you never read out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared praise for yourself.

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