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Gospel

A gospel is 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. It originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century AD, the term euangélion (Koine Greek: εὐαγγέλιον, lit. 'good news') came to…

Standards, Canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John & Non-canonical (apocryphal) gospels

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Canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Life of JesusJohn the BaptistDisciplesPhariseesPost-resurrection appearances
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Non-canonical (apocryphal) gospels

ApocryphalHereticalInfancy Gospel of ThomasJewish ChristianMessiah of scripture
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In Islam

IslamInjilTawratZaburQuran
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Overview

Jesus ChristHis trialDeathPost-resurrection appearancesChristian
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Chapters
89
Language
Koine Greek
Period
Apostolic Age
Religion
Christianity
Verses
3,779

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Etymology

Canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

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In Islam

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Gospel

Nodes149
Edges148
Triples169
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013423
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Gospel

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related to Composition · 33
Gospel → According, Acts, AD, Before, Burkett, Chris Keith, Despite, Gathercole, Greco-Roman, He, However, James, Jesus, Jesus's, John, John AD, John's, Koine Greek, Like, Luke
related to Criticism · 22
Gospel → Abdullah Saeed, According, Biblical, Christian, Christians, Helsinki, In, Injil, Islamic, Jesus, Jewish, Jews, Mehdy Shaddel, Others, Professor Ilka Lindstedt, Qu'ran, Qur'an, Qur'anic, Quran, Some
related to Genre and historical reliability · 22
Gospel → Ancient, As, Biblical, Bond, Burridge, Christian, For, Gospels, Graeco-Roman, Historical Jesus, History Seminar, Jesus, John, John's, Matthew, Richard Burridge's, Scholars, Since, Some, Synoptic
related to Contents · 21
Gospel → According, Adam, Ancient Greek, Baptist, Church, Church Fathers, Each, Galilee, God, Jerusalem, Jesus, John, John's Gospel, King David, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Peter, Pharisees, The
related to Non-canonical (apocryphal) gospels · 13
Gospel → Christianity, Coptic Gospel, Infancy, Infancy Gospel, James, Jesus, Mary, Ministry, Protoevangelium, Sayings, The, They, Thomas
related to Etymology · 12
Gospel → Encyclopaedia Britannica, Greek, Hellenistic Greek, In Old English, Latin, Latinized, Middle English Bible, Modern English, Old English, The Greek, The Old English, Vulgate
related to history · 12
Gospel → Christian, Church, He, Irenaeus, John, Luke, Marcion, Mark, Matthew, Sinope, The, The Muratorian
see also · 12
Gospel → AgraphaApocalyptic, Aquarian Gospel, BibleDishna PapersDating, BibleFifth, ChristAuthorship, Christian, Christianity, IslamGospel, Jesus, L'Évangile, MarcionJesuismJewish, The
related to External links · 9
Gospel → Greek, Greek New Testament, June, NA26/27, New Testament, Quotations, Westcott-Hort, WikiquoteA, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
Chapters · 1
Gospel → 89

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gospels jesus john mark scholars historical luke matthew first synoptic also written canonical christian greek four century theological traditions ancient

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GospelChapters891.00infobox
GospelLanguageKoine Greek1.00infobox
GospelPeriodApostolic Age1.00infobox
GospelReligionChristianity1.00infobox
GospelVerses3,7791.00infobox
Gospelis aloose-knit0.90text
that of Jamesinstance ofinfancy gospels0.80text
Mark 14instance ofthere are also verses0.80text
his closest disciplesinstance ofhe was still a contemporary of Jesus and personally knew eyewitnesses of Jesus0.80text
Simon Jinstance ofmany scholars0.80text
memory studiesinstance ofusing methods0.80text
form criticisminstance ofusing methods0.80text

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