Hi, friends. I'm Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament, 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're reading all four books. We did it in January, we did it in February, and now we're kicking off March.

Go ahead and subscribe today and join us as we read the Gospels together and invite your friends to come along to.

If this is new to you, welcome. I'm telling you, March is so fun. We've already loved it. We're reading the Gospels in chronological order, so we're going to read a piece of every book, every single day.

And it means that when a story appears in more than one of the Gospels, we're going to read those accounts all on the same day, so we can observe the differences of what the different Gospels writers included.

This means you definitely want the March reading plan. I think you also want the Let's Read the Gospels guidebook, because it will walk you along in this with us.

You just get all that at any fdowns.com slash Gospels. The March reading plan is included with the other pages of the Let's Read the Gospels guidebook.

And this month's guidebook is really fun because we're doing in chronological order. There's things standing out to us too that we are walking with you through.

So it's really, really good. I think you're going to love it. And remember each month we release new guidebook pages. So when you purchase it, you will also get the January February pages of the guidebook, and you'll get March and all the months to come for the rest of this year.

So you get all that at any fdowns.com slash Gospels.

So today is March 3rd, day 3. And here is what all I'm going to be reading. You ready?

Luke 2, 41 to 52. Mark 1, 1 through 8. Matthew 3, 1 through 12. Luke 3, 1 through 18. Mark 1, 9 through 11. Matthew 3, 13 to 17.

Luke 3, 21 to 22. Mark 1, 12 to 13. Matthew 4, 1 through 11. Luke 4, 1 through 15. And John 1, 19 through 34.

Everything we are reading today is about John the Baptist and Jesus' temptation and the wilderness. So you're going to hear all the accounts of those two really important parts of the Gospels.

And the translation I'm reading from this month is the new living translation.

This is day 3 in chronological order. Jesus speaks with the teachers.

Every year, Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover festival. When Jesus was 12 years old, they attended the festival as usual.

After the celebration was over, they started home to Nazareth, but Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents didn't miss him at first because they assumed he was among the other travelers.

But when he didn't show up that evening, they started looking for him among the relatives and friends. When they couldn't find him, they went back to Jerusalem to search for him there.

Three days later, they finally discovered him in the temples sitting among the religious teachers listening to them and asking questions. All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

His parents didn't know what to think. Son, his mother said to him, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been frantic searching for you everywhere.

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