Hi, friends. I'm Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. In this month, the Let's Read

the Gospels podcast is sponsored by our friends at Crew. 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 read all four books. It's about three chapters a day for 30 days.

And you know, we always say around here, you don't have to be in the Gospels every day

to be changed, but every day you're in the Gospels will change you. So I'm really glad

you're with us today. So today, I'm going to read you three chapters. You can listen

or read along in your own Bible. And then I'll pray. And that's it. So today is May 13th,

day 13. And I'll be reading Mark chapters eight through 10. And this month, I'm reading

from the CSB version, Mark eight. And those days there was, again, a large crowd. And

they had nothing to eat. He called the disciples and said to them, I have compassion on

the crowd because they've already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat.

If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way. And some of them have come a

long distance. His disciples answered him, where can anyone get enough bread here in

this desolate place to feed these people? How many loaves do you have? He asked them seven,

they said. He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground, taking the seven loaves.

He gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So

they served them to the crowd. They also had a few small fish. And after he had blessed

them, he said these were to be served as well. They ate and were satisfied. Then they

collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces. About 4,000 were there. He dismissed

them. And he immediately got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district

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