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Gospel

Also known as Evangelium, Gospels

thumb|Fragment of a flyleaf with the title of the Gospel of Matthew, (). From [[Papyrus 4 (), it is the earliest manuscript title for Matthew and one of the earliest manuscript titles for any gospel.]]

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The Gospels are the four New Testament accounts of Jesus's life and teachings, with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John being the most significant. They matter because they are foundational texts in Christianity and among the oldest written records we have about Jesus, with some manuscript fragments dating back very early in Christian history.

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Religious text.verses: 3,779
Religious text.period: Apostolic Age
Religious text.chapters: 89
Religious text.language: Koine Greek
Religious text.name: Canonical Gospels
Religious text.image: Sargis Pitsak.jpg
Religious text.religion: Christianity
Religious text.caption: The first page of the Gospel of Mark in Armenian, by Sargis Pitsak, 14th century

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Commons category: Gospels
native label: εὐαγγέλιον
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Contents

Etymology
Canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Contents
Composition
Genre and historical reliability
Textual history and canonisation
Non-canonical (apocryphal) gospels
In Islam
Criticism
See also
Notes
References
Sources
External links

Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words and deeds of Jesus Christ, culminating in his trial and death, and concluding with various reports of his post-resurrection appearances.