Hi friends, I'm 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. So here is how it works. I'll read three chapters to you. You can listen or read along in your own Bible or online, and then I'll pray. And that's it. Today is day 20 of this month. I'll be

reading Luke 13 through 15. And this month I'm reading from the CSB version.

Luke 13. At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And he responded to them, do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things? No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well. Are these 18 that the

Tower of Salome fell on and killed? Do you think they were more sinful than all the other people who live in

Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well. And he told this parable.

A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for

fruit on it and found none. He told the vineyard worker, listen, for three years I've come looking for

fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down. Why should it even waste the soil? But he replied to him,

Sir, leave it this year also until I dig around it and fertilize it. Perhaps it will

produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down. As he was teaching in one of the synagogues

on the Sabbath, a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent

over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called out to her,

Woman, you are free of your disability.

Then he laid his hands on her and instantly she was restored and began to glorify God.

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath,

responded by telling the crowd,

There are six days when work should be done. Therefore,

come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day. But the Lord answered him and said,

hypocrites, doesn't each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath

and lead it to water? Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham for 18 years. Shouldn't she

be untied from this bondage on a

Sabbath day? When he had said these things, all his adversaries were humiliated, but the whole

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