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.

Each month we read all four books. So go ahead and subscribe today and join us as we read the Gospels together.

So here's how this works. This month we've been reading through the Gospels chronologically, which I am loving and y'all are loving and I'm sad it's coming to an end.

But we get to read the stories in the order they took place, which mixes from all four books most days, only three today, but most days we get all four.

You can listen or read along in your own Bible, then I'll pray and that's it. So here are the references for you today.

Today is September 23rd. I'll be reading Matthew 22 1 through 14, Mark 12 13 to 17, Matthew 22 15 to 22, Luke 20 20 to 26, Mark 12 18 to 27, Matthew 22 23 to 33, Luke 20 27 to 40, Mark 12 28 to 34, Matthew 22 34 to 40, Mark 12 35 to 37, Matthew 22 41 to 46,

Luke 20 41 to 44, Mark 12 38 to 40, Matthew 23 1 through 12, Luke 20 45 to 47, Matthew 23 13 to 39, Mark 12 41 to 44 and Luke 21 1 through 4 in the NIV.

The story of the wedding banquet from Matthew Jesus spoke to them again, and parable saying the kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.

Then he sent some more servants and said, tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and fat and calf have been butchered and everything is ready.

Come to the wedding banquet, but they paid no attention and went off one to his field, another to his business.

The rest seized his servants mistreated them and killed them. The king was enraged.

He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, the wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.

So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find. So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find.

The bad as well as the good and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

He asked, how did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend? The man was speechless.

Then the king told the attendants, tie him hand in foot and throw him outside into the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

For many are invited, but few are chosen.

Taxes for Caesar from Mark.

Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words.

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