Gospels in a sentence

Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 437 Non-canonical gospels main further In addition to the four canonical gospels, early Christians wrote other gospels that were not accepted into the canon, some of which are discussed below.

The Diatessaron became adopted as the standard lectionary text of the gospels in some Syriac-speaking churches from the late 2nd to the 5th century, when it gave way to the four separate Gospels, in the Peshitta version.

The Lindisfarne Gospels might be the single most beautiful book produced in the Middle Ages, and the Echternach Gospels and (probably) the Book of Durrow are other products of Lindisfarne.

These four gospels that were eventually included in the New Testament were only a few among many other early Christian gospels.

If you look through the Gospels, Jesus does not really give instructions on how to run a government.

On Bright Monday, the tradition calls for proclaiming all four Resurrection Gospels.

Page from the Rossano Gospels, an illuminated manuscript written in Greek during the 6th Century AD.

Some scholars think that the Book of Kells, an important illuminated manuscript produced about 800 AD containing the four Gospels of the New Testament with extravagant, complex imagery, may have been created at Tarbat.

That tale has four variations, a la the Gospels, and the first, called “Curb Your Judaism” (you can imagine what that’s like; it nails it, thanks in large part to J.B. Smoove) immediately put me at ease vis a vis the tired, double-crossing Jew libel.

The artifact is believed to be one of the oldest handwritten gospels, written in Greek sometime between the end of the tenth century and beginning of the eleventh century.

The Book of the Gospels is denotative of a deacon’s mandate to proclaim the Gospel at Mass. Finally, the bishop will welcome him with the fraternal kiss of peace.

This theology had come to hold that God's plan for humanity could be seen in the development of Western Christian civilization through which God was bringing in the kingdom to which Jesus refers in the Gospels.

According to the gospels of John, Matthew and Mark, Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalene.

In contrast to all those events, the scriptural texts mentioning Jesus’ scourging or flagellation take up, at most, a total of seven verses across four Gospels.

In the Gospels, we read that Jesus healed all manner of disease and sickness.

I was listening to blues and gospels soul; we had all the great music.

That is arguably because the Johannine Gospels for these three Sundays this year point out the path to Jesus’ Passion and Glorification.

This is the reason given in the Gospels for Jesus' crucifixion.

As just one example, on the Gospels, Barton discusses the story of the woman taken in adultery (the "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her" one) and asks if the account is a genuine reminiscence of Jesus?

She reads what Roberto wants her to, but comes to her own conclusions (she finds the Gospels nonsensical and a bore).