It's not meant literally. They are saying he went about teaching what's IN the Gospel. To simplify....Jesus taught X, Y, Z and then all those Gospel writers recorded X, Y, and Z so that the reader may follow the teachings.

Gospel just means Good News in English and originally meant god's saving grace so they mean "he went around preaching the Good News" not a literal written word.

I know I select CHRISTIANITY every time! Years ago, I had a Muslim friend who gave me the Quran and I read it. Had respect for it and it was and still is to me,awesome, the Unity they have. And they also KNEW of Jesus, but only as a prophet, not as OUR SAVIOR.I have lived over there too and I remember thinking "if only Christians were this united", but the Bible tells us it won't be as the Jews were, but it will be when HE comes back for us, so I look forward to that day.. But all my friend EVER DID was try to PROVE to me that the Bible was wrong and the his was right!!! I finally said "Look, you got Mohammed and I have Jesus Christ, leave it alone!!!!! I have read my Bible many times and it continues to MOVE me everytime, like no other,and I have read many books. Just the point that MAN has tried his hardest to WIPE THE BIBLE OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH and FAILED, is good enough for me. Has this been done to the Quran? See, there is a very good reason for POWER hunry people to want to DESTROY the most POWERFUL BOOK EVER WRITTEN, don't you think??? Did God take Mohhamed up and tell him the 10 commandments? Moses was told the laws and those SCRIPTURES were written down as all scripture was GOD BEATHED. Jesus told the Jewish Priests that they knew and should recognize the SAVIOR because they had studied the SCRIPTURES!!! I find this , "obviously not the ones according to Matthew, Mark, Luke or John , a direct SLAM of THE WORD, God gave us!!! Yes, there are lots that we may not still have today and even some that is not used, BUT GOD has made sure we have what we NEED and HIS WORD has ENDURED MAN!!! Jesus was the GOOD NEWS(GOSPEL). HIS APOSTLES had the HOLY SPIRIT, which is GOD. GOD is the HOLY SPIRIT,JESUS CHRIST, THE WORD... If you TRULY believe in GOD , HE tells us over and over and over, you HAVE to believe in the FATHER, the SON and the HOLY SPIRIT. They are HE and HE is ONE...

God has never directly written down His words and commandments for us. He has always done it through surrogates (prophets). This was no different, when Jesus came. He taught the gospel (the good news) and left it for others to record His words and deeds.

(Before I answer, I am a HORRIbLE speller. Please extend some grace.) Great question. It is one that, as a Christian, I pose to other Christians. If we want people to hope in the Gospel, but we don't know what it is, where should they direct their hope? And if WE hope in the Gospel and we don't know what it is, what are we hoping in? This question is not really a puzzle thought, but it will help get people PAST tradition and what someone has told them to a place where they can make a decision to accept the most unbelievable claim of the Bible. Not that there is a God, but, that if such an Enitity exist,It takes notice of you, has affection for you, enjoy's you and would give everything to ensure constant interaction with you. Basically, that you are being pursued and seduced spiritually by God. Your question is was there another Gospel according to God or Jesus. The answer is No. The Gospel is the same. There is only one truth and only one message from God. That message is God's will is for you to know He desires, love and enjoy's you and to prove that, He will continually make provisions for you to know Him, know that nothing elses satisfies you completely but Him, know that there is a way to be close to him and that He can supply you with faith to believe something so unbelievable. That message expressed reveals how glorious the nature of God is. Which is one of the purposes of man. That gospel is consistently spoken from Genesis to Revelation. The "gospels" Matthew,Mark, Luke, and John, were termed that way by men. The Gospel is the message that God is expressing to us. Like the Word of God. People call the Bible the Word of God. However, in the Bible, we are told that there is MUCH more that could not be contained in it's pages. We are told that Jesus is the Word of God. The Bible, though containing details of the Word of God. Is not the complete Word of God anymore than my journal or Drivers licesens with all my stats and Picture would be ME. The "gospels" contain details and an illustration of the message but the Gospel IS CHRIST. We are told in John 1, that Jesus is the Word made flesh. Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. God's words are things like "let there be light", or "Go! Tell the isrealites I've heard their cries". The Word of God is God's will expressed. Jesus is the complete incarnation of God's expressed will. John says the world was created according to Him and all things were made according to Him. Makes sense. All things were made according to God's will. The Gospel that Christ spoke was the only Gospel there ever was or will be. And He had it because He was it. He spoke the "good news" of God's will for us. The Gospel of God's desire for us, acceptance, affection, provision and promises. He told us how to take hold of them and how to stop worrying so much about our selves and our sins and focus more on experiencing God by loving others and accepting the unbelievable. There is no other Gospel. There does not need to be another Gospel. I believe that should answer your question. Please let me know if I missed it.

Fact is, the "Good News" mentioned by others was only given to the "Chosen Peoples"(Jews)as a "Contract" to "Provide a Savior" in the "Future" because of Abrams Faith and "Disseminated" by the Rabbis & Pentateuch. However, the Jews lost that "Faith" being "Wrapped Up" in their "Religious System". So in Christ, Gods' Plan included All the World! It was THIS "Gospel" that Christ "Proclaimed", letting people know that He was the "Contract Manifested in Humanity" for "Salvations Eternal Life" for All Times, Past, Present & Future. John

This is the central problem with interpreting Christianity literally. It is clear that the accounts of Jesus' life, if that was his name, are not very reliable accounts. At the time of Jesus, there were many men claiming to be the "Messiah." Which of these biographies was blown up into the myth of "Jesus Christ," we will never know...

The "gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke or John" are about Jesus' life. They are all inspired of God. Their job was to record the actions and teachings of the Christ. “Gospel” means “good news”. Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines “Gospel” as “the message concerning Christ, the kingdom of God, and salvation.” Jesus would grow up to be the Christ, the promised Messiah. He would reveal God’s purpose for salvation, give up his perfect human life in behalf of mankind, be resurrected, and then become the chosen King of God’s Kingdom. Good news indeed. That is why the message about him is called the Gospel. Today, the good news includes a further element. According to all the evidence of the fulfillment of prophecy, Jesus has now been enthroned, and we are living in the last days of this system of things. ( see 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Revelation 12:7-12) The time when the Kingdom will act against God’s enemies is rapidly approaching. What better news could there be?

"Gospel" in this context literally means "good news", not what we know as the tangilble Gospel books of the New Testament

Jesus himself is quoted as saying at John 18:37 "For this I have been born and for this I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth" His teachings were recorded for us by the 4 gospel writers. The theme of his witnessing to the truth was the Kingdom of God which he told us to pray for(Matt6:9).

Jesus was a Rabbi. The common custom was that the Rabbi would teach and his disciples would write down notes. The disciples were the ones that wrote the books, which is customary. It is the same with Muhammad who taught his disciples who wrote these teachings on pieces of bark or whatever could be found. Going outside of the popular religions, it was still a part of the tradition, as this same method was displayed with Socrates. We have none of Socrates writings, but he taught Aristotle and Plato, who wrote down his teachings and then used what they learned to form other writings. The Gospels according to Matthew, Luke & John were written from the notes they took having been taught by Jesus. Mark was not a disciple of Jesus, but he was taught by the disciples, who became the Apostles of the Church, and his Gospel is also based on the notes that were shown him by the disciples.

The following is my response to points raised by smsedmc in his answer to the above question and to many comments directed at my other postings. These points are very good and are related. To do them justice I have posted my response here. 1 You say “The disciples were the ones that wrote the books, which is customary.” How does that square with the OT books that Moses himself is supposed to have written. 2 Mohammed was so concerned about the accurate recording of the revelations coming to him he would have written them down himself had he been able to read and write. The time and region he was living in had a very strong oral rather than written tradition. Many things were committed to memory and passed down the generations. Those who could read and write were a small minority. Despite the revelations being memorised by Mohammed and many others he made sure that scribes wrote the verses down and he had the verses read back to him for authentication. 3 What constitutes the Bible was decided by groups of men. It is believed that the OT was an open canon from about 400 BCE, that means books could be added to it and removed from it by men. What should constitute the Torah was decided first, followed by decision around 200 BCE on what books should form the Prophets, while it was probably about 100 AFTER Jesus that the part of the OT referred to as the Writings was finalised. For the first 100 years the early Christians used whatever parts of the OT that had been canonised, most probably the Torah and the Prophets. Later collections of Paul’s letters started appearing. Of the Gospels there were many that were written, but Irenaeus of Lyons, c. 185 insisted that there must four, neither more nor less, because the earth had four corners. It was in the early part of the third century that the NT grew into its 27 books including the four Gospels chosen from the many, but there were still disputes over the inclusion of certain books, in particular Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, and Revelation. This collection was officially approved in 393 in the west. It was the fifth century when the eastern churches accepted the NT however some still had reservations about the inclusion of Revelations. 4 By contrast the written copy of the HQ that was retained by Mohammed was entrusted for safe keeping to his wife Hafsa, daughter of his companion Omar, the second Caliph. As Islam found popularity and spread, more people with different dialects became Muslims and started reciting the HQ in their own dialects and making copies of the HQ in these dialects. There was a clear danger here that if this was allowed to carry on people who were replacing certain words to accommodate their own dialects might unwittingly end up introducing different shades of meaning into the HQ. To stop this, Othman, the third Caliph, ordered that copies be made of the master that was in Hafsa’s custody and sent as submasters to the new regions and ordered that anything that did not comply with the master copy or the limited dialects specifically permitted by Mohammed should be destroyed. That precautionary step together with the oral tradition of memorising the whole HQ and reading it out loud in public, still popular today, helped preserve the HQ in its original text to this day. In fact the practice of memorising the HQ accurately is so strong that if all copies of the HQ had been or were to be destroyed Muslims would be able to reproduce authenticated copies of the original from those who have committed the whole HQ to memory. In this way the HQ has been and will probably remain not only indestructible but also incorruptible. The claim regarding the future is not vain talk but is made for two reasons. First it has been proven by history so far in that the HQ has remained unchanged in the last 14 centuries, and secondly the HQ contains a verse which says God will preserve it from corruption, this is in HQ 15:9 which says “We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption).” 5 Your claim that the Bible has been accurately copied appears to go against the findings of the Christian scholars, doctors of divinity no less, who when examining the KJV commented that “the King James Version HAS GRAVE DEFECTS" and "these DEFECTS ARE SO MANY AND SO SERIOUS as to call for revision . . ." For example in your copy of the KJV John 3:16 most probably says “his only BEGOTTEN son” while in the RSV it would be “his only son” as the word BEGOTTEN was deleted because it was discovered to be a forgery. In every copy of the KJV 1 John 5:7 declares "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these three are one." This has been discovered to be a forgery and has been deleted. Another correction concerns the ascension of Jesus which appears only in Mark 16:19 and Luke 24:51. These have been discovered to be additions. These changes are quite fundamental changes.

I don't understand the difference, Borasalama. You say Mohammed had people to copy down what he said, therefore the HQ is accurate. But, it can be no more accurate than Jesus having inspired Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to do the same. No matter how many or how few people copy what someone says, there will be parts that each person sees in a different way. It's why witnesses to crimes almost NEVER see the same thing. As far as the HQ being entrusted to his wife and family for safekeeping, somewhere down the line, someone could have gotten ahold of some of Mohammed's teachings and tried to revise or update them. It's the same with the Bible. It, (Jesus's Holy Word), was entrusted to trusted elders and ministers of the Christian church. Also, for MANY years, people have been trying to rip the Bible apart (hence ... GRAVE DEFECTS and such), but I'm sure that some say there are mistakes in the HQ. ANYONE who does not believe, will always try to dispute the words. It all boils down to what we believe in our hearts, what we each believe the Word is trying to teach us. As a Christian, I never accept one thing as the basis for my beliefs. I have (as I'm sure you have), studied many different versions and study helps, to come to the opinion that I have reached. I have FAITH that my years of study have led me to the true path. But, they BOTH had others write their words down, so as far as authenticity, it seems they are pretty equal.

There are the 4 gospels, and they teach about Christs' ministry while on earth. His ministry/gospel was to let people know about Him, why He had come and how to be saved. Jesus told the gospel first hand, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John just documented it for everyone who were not there to see Christ in person.

Preaching the Good news... That whomever believes in him shall have salvation...Seems simple enough right? The Bible has been "doctored" over the years and there are literally 100's of scriptures books of Gospel. Fact is that only 22 were chosen by men of the clergy or advisors through time. We are told that there are "reasons" that only these 22 books have been accepted and the others dismissed, even though the stories or accounts don't necesarily add up. But if we were all to read each and every scripture related to God and and the Christlike figure, what would our conclusions be? Why are there so many different accounts of who and how God is? From the beginning of time we have known that we are spiritual beings. We have always looked to a higher power. There is scarely a group that does not believe in the intangible forces that affect their lives or afterlives. It is only fair to say that they all have a very similar structure associated with them. There is a Panultimate supreme being. There are demibeings, then there is the Christ figure (messenger) half God half man, then there is a mortal earthly being. for example; the Ancient Greeks and Romans had similar belief systems they had one God ruler (Male)and 12 Demi Gods. Then as a result of some twist, a God is cast down to earth in a physical body but with super human qualities,take Hercules for example who saved thousands of people and through his good deeds became a God again and regained entry to heaven. There is a battle between good and evil over the ruling of the Earth between Zeus and Hades. Sound familar? Whats this got to do with scriptures you ask right? well those are a form of Gospel that has been recorded in picture odes and songs. There are a few varying accounts but the essence of the story remains the same. Just like the Holy Bible and the Holy Khoran. Going out on a bigger limb here... same story in essence. the discrepancy may lie in the belief that the event has already come to pass with out the signifcant scholars recognising it may have already come to pass, through the witness and accounts of others. Hence There are four books because they each support each other and they are nessecary . The Khoran although unchanged has not been verified by another source written by another with the same parallels to authenticate it and has not recorded the crucifixtion of Christ as the salvation of man. There is too much for discussion here. I don't believe either is wrong more perhaps not completely understood in the contexts they are presented in. I think like all the stories about redemption, they need to be understood together and one must read as much as possible and choose what each believes to be true. The Christ tells all who'll listen about what God has told him. The story is a little romanticised and that is ok. because it is a true story that has captured many peoples hearts with its beautiful message. He preached that a relationship with God is the way to salvation and honouring him with your Goodness is an advancement to the ascention to Heaven. Then he went and "proved" it. So moved by this some were inspired to write about it. A Relationship with God does not begin with the Bible it begins with a dialogue. A prayer, to pray is to believe. Believing in God is the ultimate Goal of these texts and Faith fills in the Gaps. As for the Question what happened to it? perhaps the answer lies in one of the other many hundreds of books omitted by Modern Bible. You just have to have faith that it is correct.There has to be a reason for these chosen 22 books only. There is no real answer only opinion. Good luck and God Bless.

By 'Gospel' is meant the 'Good news' which is defined most clearly in Luke 4: 18-19 18'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to bring Good News to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, To set the oppressed at liberty, 19 To proclaim the accepted year of the Lord.'

(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come. This is what Jesus peached , the good news , the same as the Apostles .

What Really Is the Gospel? DURING the Christmas season, people in many lands hear about, and even personally speak about, the Gospel. The term is very common, but does it have more meaning than most imagine? Could the Gospel mean something outstandingly good for you and your loved ones? “Gospel” means “good news,” and surely, good news is welcome not just at Christmastime but anytime. However, the Gospel is not just any good news. It is a specific good news from a definite source about a particular subject. It is, in fact, a message that God has appointed to be announced to all mankind. Eugênio Salles, archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, spoke about that good news when he urged: “We should act in harmony with the Gospel and not in the light of ideologies.” The archbishop was correct. To act in harmony with the Gospel, however, requires that we know what the Gospel is. How can we learn that? And how will acting in harmony with the Gospel help us? What Is the Gospel? The nature of the Gospel is often misunderstood. In 1918 the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America hailed the now defunct League of Nations as the political expression of the Kingdom of God on earth and declared that it was “rooted in the Gospel.” That body failed dismally in its goal to preserve peace. Clearly, the council was wrong. The League of Nations had nothing to do with the Gospel. In recent years promoters of liberation theology have freely brought up the Gospel when talking about their ideas for political or social reformation. In doing so they have disregarded the real Gospel. The Brazilian magazine Veja commented: “The Catholic Church began to favor the social kingdom, ignoring the spiritual needs of its faithful. Those who sought the word God in a sermon often found only rhetorical arguments against social injustices.” An improvement in living conditions or a change in political systems may be good news to some. Yet, such is not the good news, the Gospel. Admitting his church’s failure to preach the real Gospel, one bishop said: “We neglected the spiritual teaching of our faithful since the 60’s because of a materialistic interference in our doctrine.” A report in the U.S. news magazine Time suggests that Protestants too have lost sight of the Gospel. The magazine observes: “Not only are the traditional denominations failing to get their message across; they are increasingly unsure just what that message is.” What should their message be? What is the Gospel? Identifying the Gospel Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines “Gospel” as “the message concerning Christ, the kingdom of God, and salvation.” The word “gospel” is also defined as “an interpretation of the Christian message (the social gospel)”; “the message or teachings of a religious teacher.” Do all these definitions apply? No, not if we are speaking of the Gospel. The real Gospel is based on the Bible; hence, only the first of those three definitions is accurate. The last two merely reflect the way that the word “gospel” has come to be used today. In harmony with this thought, Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says that in the Christian Greek Scriptures (the “New Testament”), the Gospel “denotes the good tidings of the Kingdom of God and of salvation through Christ, to be received by faith, on the basis of His expiatory death.” It is important to understand this because a correct understanding of the true good news has much to do with our present well-being and future happiness. A Distinct Message As the foregoing reference work shows, the Gospel is closely linked with Jesus Christ—so much so that the four Bible accounts of his life on earth are called the four Gospels. Right from the beginning of his human life, news about Jesus was good news. When announcing his birth, an angel said: “Look! I am declaring to you good news [or, gospel] of a great joy that all the people will have, because there was born to you today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”—Luke 2:10, 11. The newborn Jesus would grow up to be the Christ, the promised Messiah. He would reveal God’s purpose for salvation, give up his perfect human life in behalf of mankind, be resurrected, and then become the chosen King of God’s Kingdom. Good news indeed! That is why the message about him is called the Gospel. During his short earthly ministry, Jesus was very zealous in preaching the good news. We read in the Gospel of Matthew: “Jesus set out on a tour of all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom.” (Matthew 9:35) His preaching was not just to make people feel better. Mark records Jesus as saying: “The appointed time has been fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has drawn near. Be repentant, you people, and have faith in the good news.” (Mark 1:15) Yes, those who responded and obeyed the good news found that it changed their lives. After Jesus’ death, his followers continued to preach the Gospel. Not only did they speak about the Kingdom but they added the happy news that Jesus had been resurrected to God’s right hand in the heavens and had offered the value of his perfect human life in behalf of mankind. As the one chosen by God to rule over all the earth as King of God’s Kingdom, he would be God’s Agent in destroying God’s enemies and in restoring the earth to a paradise.—Acts 2:32-36; 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10; Hebrews 9:24-28; Revelation 22:1-5. Today, the good news includes a further element. According to all the evidence of the fulfillment of prophecy, Jesus has now been enthroned, and we are living in the last days of this system of things. (2 Timothy 3:1-5; Revelation 12:7-12) The time when the Kingdom will act against God’s enemies is rapidly approaching. What better news could there be?

Because Jesus was the exemplar , therefore he said came to make known his Fathers name Jehovah, and to bear witness to the truth .While you could say it is the good news about the kingdom , it is good news for all mankind ,as Jesus'sacrifice makes way salvation for all mankind on earth . Good News This refers to the good news of the Kingdom of God and of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. It is called in the Bible “the good news of the kingdom” (Mt 4:23), “the good news of God” (Ro 15:16), “the good news about Jesus Christ” (Mr 1:1), “the good news of the undeserved kindness of God” (Ac 20:24), “the good news of peace” (Eph 6:15), and the “everlasting good news” (Re 14:6). The Greek word translated “good news” (“gospel” in KJ and some other versions) is eu·ag·ge′li·on. “An evangelizer” (the English word being almost a transliteration of the Greek) is a preacher of the good news.—Ac 21:8; 2Ti 4:5. Its Content. An idea of the content and scope of the good news can be gained from the above designations. It includes all the truths about which Jesus spoke and the disciples wrote. While men of old hoped in God and had faith through knowledge of Him, God’s purposes were first “made clearly evident through the manifestation of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death but has shed light upon life and incorruption through the good news.”—2Ti 1:9, 10. Centuries earlier God had declared the good news to Abraham, thereby indicating the means by which he purposed to provide the good news. He said: “By means of you all the nations will be blessed.” (Ga 3:8) Later, through the prophet Isaiah, Jehovah spoke of the preaching of the good news. Jesus Christ read from this prophecy in the synagogue at Nazareth, afterward saying: “Today this scripture that you just heard is fulfilled.” (Lu 4:16-21) Isaiah’s prophecy described the purpose and effect of the good news to be preached, particularly from the time of Messiah’s coming.—Isa 61:1-3. Its Progress. At Jesus’ birth the angel announced to the shepherds: “Have no fear, for, look! I am declaring to you good news of a great joy that all the people will have.” (Lu 2:10) John the Baptizer prepared the way for Jesus’ preaching of the good news, saying to the Jews: “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” (Mt 3:1, 2) Jesus said of John’s preaching: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of the heavens is the goal toward which men press, and those pressing forward are seizing it.”—Mt 11:12. During Jesus’ earthly ministry, he confined his preaching of the good news to the Jews and proselytes, saying: “I was not sent forth to any but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Mt 15:24) When sending out the 12 apostles, he commanded them: “Do not go off into the road of the nations, and do not enter into a Samaritan city; but, instead, go continually to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Mt 10:5, 6) On one occasion he preached to a woman of the Samaritans, who were related to the Israelites, but this was not because he had gone into the city to preach. However, the response of the woman and others was so favorable that Jesus stayed with them for two days.—Joh 4:7-42. After Jesus’ death and resurrection, he gave his disciples the command: “Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.” (Mt 28:19, 20) He also told them that their preaching would reach to “the most distant part of the earth.” (Ac 1:8) But for about three and a half years afterward the holy spirit led the disciples to confine their preaching to Jews and Samaritans. Then Peter was sent by God to bring the good news to the household of the Roman army officer Cornelius. (Ac chaps 10, 11; 15:7) From that time on, the good news was declared to the greatest possible extent over the widest area. Its Importance. The apostle Paul wrote with strong conviction about the provision for salvation that God had made through Jesus Christ. He declared that if anyone was to declare to the Galatians something beyond what they had learned, something that was actually a different teaching, “let him be accursed.” Then, pointing to the source of the good news that he declared, Paul stated: “Neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, except through revelation by Jesus Christ.” (Ga 1:8, 11, 12) This strong declaration was necessary, for even then there were some who were trying to overthrow the true faith by preaching ‘another good news.’ (2Co 11:4; Ga 1:6, 7) Paul warned of an apostasy to come and stated that ‘the mystery of lawlessness’ was already at work; he admonished Christians to remember the purpose of the good news and to stand firm and maintain their hold on the spirit-guided traditions they had learned through the apostles.—2Th 2:3, 7, 14, 15; Faithfulness in holding on to and continuing to proclaim the good news was counted by Jesus as more important than one’s present life, and Paul recognized that faithfully declaring it was vital. (Mr 8:35; 1Co 9:16; 2Ti 1:8) The individual might suffer the loss of his most cherished possessions, even undergoing persecutions but, in turn, would receive a hundredfold now, “houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, . . . and in the coming system of things everlasting life.”—Mr 10:29, 30. The good news is the touchstone by which mankind is judged: Acceptance of and obedience to the good news result in salvation; rejection and disobedience bring destruction. (1Pe 4:5, 6, 17; 2Th 1:6-8) Particularly with this fact in view, the individual’s motive in preaching the good news must be pure and he must preach it from the heart, out of love for those hearing. The apostles were so appreciative of the life-giving importance of the good news and were so fired with God’s spirit and with love that they imparted not only the good news but also their “own souls” to those who listened to their preaching. (1Th 2:8) God provided that the proclaimers of the good news had the right to accept material help from those to whom they brought it. (1Co 9:11-14) But Paul and his close associates so cherished their privilege as bearers of the good news that they carefully avoided making financial gain therefrom, or even giving the appearance of doing so in connection with their preaching. The apostle Paul describes his course of action in this regard at 1 Corinthians 9:15-18 and 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 9. Enemies. The good news has been bitterly fought, and the source of the enmity is identified by the apostle: “If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.” (2Co 4:3, 4) The earliest enemies of the good news were the religious leaders of the Jews. Their enmity, however, resulted in good to the Gentiles, or people of the nations, in that it opened up the opportunity for Gentiles to be fellow partakers of “the promise in union with Christ Jesus through the good news.”—Ro 11:25, 28; Eph 3:5, 6. Enemies of the good news caused the Christians much suffering and required the apostles to put up a hard fight before rulers in defending and legally establishing the good news so that it might spread with the greatest possible freeness.—Php 1:7, 16; compare Mr 13:9-13; Ac 4:18-20; 5:27-29. Jesus’ Earthly Ministry and His Return. It is noteworthy that, for about six months before Jesus came to him for baptism, John the Baptizer preached: “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near,” and when Jesus appeared, John pointed to Jesus as “the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!” (Mt 3:1, 2; Joh 1:29) Thus he turned the people’s attention toward the long-awaited Messianic King.—Ac 19:4. While Jesus was on earth, he and his disciples announced: “The kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” (Mt 4:17; 10:7) Jesus, anointed as Christ, the King, said to the Pharisees, his enemies: “The kingdom of God is in your midst.” (Lu 17:20, 21) This was the theme, or central point, of the good news during Jesus’ earthly ministry. However, it is not reported that after Jesus’ death the disciples proclaimed the Kingdom as having “drawn near” or as being at hand. Rather, the good news they preached was that after Jesus had laid down his life as the ransom price for salvation, he ascended to heaven and was then sitting at God’s right hand. They also preached about Jesus’ return at a later time and his Kingdom to come.—Heb 10:12, 13; 2Ti 4:1; Re 11:15; 12:10; 22:20; compare Lu 19:12, 15; Mt 25:31. Jesus’ disciples asked him, “What will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?” In his answer Jesus enumerated certain things due to occur at that time. He said, among other things: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” (Mt 24:3, 14; Mr 13:10; compare Col 1:23.) In the Revelation given to the apostle John about 96 C.E., John saw an “angel flying in midheaven” who had “everlasting good news to declare as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people, saying in a loud voice: ‘Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of the judgment by him has arrived.’” (Re 14:6, 7) These inspired statements indicate that in the “last days” there would be an unparalleled proclamation of the good news of the Kingdom.

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"gospel" means "good news" - Jesus went about preaching the good news that salvation was there, that people could be forgiven their sins by accepting Him as their Savior if they repented, and they could be made right with God.