[RnMomof7]

Good grief...it’s Matthew Mark Luke and John. You might want to read them!! Lots of jesus’s own words in that.

Those are BOOKS we call the gospels ..they contain the gospel along with many of the events and encounters of Christ..

They tell us that Jesus PREACHED the gospel

Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Mat 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

When the epistles were written the gospels had not been written , yet the epistles refer to the gospel .. the gospel is a specific message of Christ that was taught by the writers of the epistles . I thought that maybe as a student of the bible you might know what it is

[Ann Archy]

So not ture....some of the Epistles are OT....some are NT.

[lastchance]

Gospel means good news. Epistle means a letter. The gospels are narratives of the life and words of Jesus. Matthew, Mark and Luke are the synoptic gospels. The Gospel of John is a non synoptic gospel.

As for specifics of the good news, Luke 4:18-21 is probably as good a summary as any.

18”(A)THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME,
BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR.
HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES,
AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,
TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED
19(T)TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.”

20And He (U)closed the book, gave it back to the attendant and (V)sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

21And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

[Cronos]

Nice strawman -- JEsus preached the Gospel to them -- He preached His good news. Some of it is encapsulated, as Ann said, in Matthew Mark Luke and John. The rest as is referred in scripture -- John 21: 25 "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.", hence we have Holy Tradition.

Jesus preached the Gospel, we have a, well, shortened version that is encapsulated in Matthew, MArk, Luke and John.

When the epistles were written the gospels had not been written , yet the epistles refer to the gospel .. the gospel is a specific message of Christ that was taught by the writers of the epistles . I thought that maybe as a student of the bible you might know what it is --> naturally, the Epistles were referring to the Holy Tradition which kept the Gospel of Christ alive. The Epistles refer to THIS. Hence thank you for proving that Holy Tradition was necessary and that it preserved the Gospel and that the written Gospels only encapsulate part of the overall Good News (Gospel)