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 GOSPEL "Gospel" is an old English word meaning "good news". It is a translation of "euangelion", a Greek word used in the New Testament, which also, not surprisingly, means "good news". The word "gospel" is used in various ways: 1. The message of Jesus – "One day as he was teaching the people in the temple courts and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him" (Luke 20:1). We don't know if "gospel" was a name that Jesus came up with himself, but he certainly seems to have considered his message to be good news. 2. The message that Jesus's followers preached about him – St Paul wrote: "From Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ" (Romans 15:19). There is a lot of overlap here, of course, in that much of what these followers preached was repeating Jesus's own message. 3. A book about the life of Jesus – "The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God" (Mark 1:1). There are four Gospels in the New Testament. More definitions |
Picture: calligraphy from an Ethiopian Orthodox prayer book. |
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