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Gospels

noun

1.

The four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings. Synonyms: evangel, Gospel.

Gospel

noun

1.

The four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings. Synonyms: evangel, Gospels.

2.

An unquestionable truth. Synonym: gospel truth.

3.

Folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul). Synonym: gospel singing.

4.

The written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group. Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine.

5.

A doctrine that is believed to be of great importance.

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Synoptic Gospels

Gospel According to John

Gospel According to Luke

Gospel According to Mark

Gospel According to Matthew

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"Gospels" Quotes from Famous Books

... turn from a frank reading of the Gospels without realizing that Jesus had a deep fellow-feeling, not only for suffering and handicapped individuals, but for the mass of the poorer people of his country, the peasants, the fishermen, the artisans. He declared that it was his mission to bring glad tidings to this class; ...

— The Social Principles of Jesus • Walter Rauschenbusch

... me as a good Lutheran, on the Holy Gospels, that you will never in this life tell one word of what you have seen and heard in this place to ...

— Peter the Priest • Mr Jkai

... but it is time that I took my stand. It seems to me that the principles upon which the soldiers of Cromwell fought, were the principles which animated the Israelites of old. Exodus, Judges, and Kings were the groundwork of their religion, not the Gospels. It has gradually been borne upon me that such is not the religion of the New Testament, and, while I seek in no way to dispute your right to think as you choose, I say the time has come when I and my wife will act ...

— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty

... Ireland owed to his zeal and energy. In these monasteries the transcription of the Holy Scriptures formed the chief labour of the inmates, and so much did Columba love the work that he actually wrote three hundred manuscripts of the Gospels and ...

— A Calendar of Scottish Saints • Michael Barrett

... to put the sin at a distance. And at last his eyes seemed to open to some new ways. He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly. He was gleeful when he discovered that he now ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

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