Gospel
Gospel is any of four biblical narratives covering the life and death of Jesus. Written, according to tradition, respectively by St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John (the four evangelists), they are placed at the beginning of the New Testament and make up about half the total text. The word gospel is derived from the Anglo-Saxon term god-spell, meaning “good story,” a rendering of the Latin evangelium and the Greek euangelion, meaning “good news” or “good telling.” The traditions of Jesus’ earthly ministry and Passion were remembered and then written in the Gospel accounts. They were written from the post-Resurrection perspective and contain an extensive and common Passion narrative as they deal with the earthly ministry of Jesus from hindsight.