Gospel

Gospel

Gospel is defined as the good news. In the New Testament times, gospel did not

attribute to a book or manuscript, but to a proclamation or message. It was normally

referred to as a proclamation of the good news. The good news usually consisted of a

victory in battle or other news for the Romans. It also had an effect on the Hebrews by

proclaiming the good news to them, especially of Israel’s victory over God’s victory.

More broadly, it can proclaim all of God’s glorious acts over Israel.

Jesus’ followers used “gospel” to describe the good news to the people, with extra

effort that the good news involved what God did in Jesus. However, some are not sure

whether Jesus used gospels to spread his proclamation. Paul described the center of his

gospel as Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection.

Marks gospel opens with, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.” He

writes that all the good news through God will be put through Jesus Christ for all the

nations to hear. His good word is put through human encounter for the real life to interact

with and learn. It also involves that God is the almighty who makes Jesus the king over

the real world. Matt and Luke do not begin their gospels the same way that Mark does,

but they all share the same ideas. Matt shows Jesus proclaiming the kingdom’s gospel

and Luke describes activity through verbal use. The use of messages separates the gospel

according to John from the others.

The life of gospels beyond the canonical is a puzzling question. Very few

uncanonical works are called gospels. However, gospel has been used to refer to

uncanonical works independently of their self-identification. It may be better to keep two

different categories because of the complications. One should be “Jesus material” and the

other should be called “gospels”. This would make the distinctions much easier because

makes the material easier to categorize.

The origin of a gospel genre arises from many early Christian writings both inside

and outside of the standard known as the canon. Gospel is not used in the idea of the New

Testament,