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. So today is day 26, and I will be reading

John chapters 7 through 9. And this month, I'm reading from the CSB version. John 7.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since he did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him.

The Jewish festival of shelters was near. So his brothers said to him, leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples can see your works that you are doing.

For no one does anything in secret while he's seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.

For not even his brothers believed in him. Jesus told them, my time has not yet arrived, but your time is

always at hand. The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it that its works

are evil. Go up to the festival yourselves. I'm not going up to this festival because my time

has not yet fully come. After he had said these things, he stayed in Galilee. After his brothers had

gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly, but secretly. The Jews were

looking for him at the festival and saying, where is he? And there was a lot of murmuring about him

among the crowds. Some were saying he's a good man. Others were saying, no, on the contrary, he's

deceiving the people. Still nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach.

Then the Jews were amazed and said,

How is this man so learned since he hasn't been trained?

Jesus answered them,

My teaching isn't mine, but is from the one who sent me.

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Didn't Moses give you the law?

Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?

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