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The Gospel of Peter (Ancient Greek: τὸ κατὰ Πέτρον εὐαγγέλιον, romanized: tò katà Pétron euangélion), or the Gospel according to Peter, is a pseudographic text concerning Jesus Christ, only partially known today.
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.
The Gospel of Matthew [a] is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells the story of who the author believes is Israel's messiah ( Christ ), Jesus , his resurrection , and his mission to the world. [ 3 ]
The oldest gospel text known is 𝔓 52, a fragment of John dating from the first half of the 2nd century. [111] The creation of a Christian canon was probably a response to the career of the heretic Marcion (c. 85 –160), who established a canon of his own with just one gospel, the Gospel of Marcion, similar to the Gospel of Luke. [112]
The Gospel in Christian liturgy refers to a reading from the Gospels used during various religious services, including Mass or Divine Liturgy . In many Christian churches, all present stand when a passage from one of the Gospels is read publicly, and sit when a passage from a different part of the Bible is read.
The Gospel of Luke [a] is the third of the New Testament's four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth , ministry , death , resurrection , and ascension of Jesus . [ 4 ] Together with the Acts of the Apostles , it makes up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts , [ 5 ] accounting for 27.5% of the New Testament. [ 6 ]
The gospel or good news is a theological concept in several religions. In the historical Roman imperial cult and today in Christianity , the gospel is a message about salvation by a divine figure, a savior, who has brought peace or other benefits to humankind.
It is said when praising God and when petitioning him. The Shema Israel is the first prayer taught to Jewish children and it is the last words a Jew says before death. The Shema is recited in preparation for the reading of the Torah on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays and at the end of the holiest day, Yom Kippur. Judaism teaches that the name ...