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-	[[Gospel]]s are a [[genre]] of [[Early Christian]] literature claiming to recount the life of [[Jesus]], to preserve his teachings, or to reveal aspects of [[God]]'s nature. The [[development of the New Testament canon|New Testament]] has four [[canonical gospels]] which are accepted as the only authentic and apostolic gospels by the Christians, but many others exist, or used to exist, and are called either [[New Testament apocrypha]] or [[pseudepigraph]]a. Some of these have left considerable traces on [[Christian]] traditions, including [[iconography]].	+
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-	The word "gospel" – [[Old English]] for "[[Good News (Christianity)|Good News]]" – is the English term for the Greek word ευαγγέλιον (''euangélion'') which means "blessed proclamation", and from which we get the word evangel and its cognates. While [[proclamation]] is central to the four canonical Gospels, it is notably absent from the other surviving apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works bearing the name of gospels.	+
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-	==Canonical gospels==	+
-	* [[Gospel of Mark]]	+
-	* [[Gospel of Matthew]]	+
-	* [[Gospel of Luke]]	+
-	* [[Gospel of John]]	+
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-	== See also ==	+
-	* [[Acts of the Apostles (genre)]]	+
-	* [[Agrapha]]	+
-	* [[Development of the New Testament canon]]	+
-	* [[Diatessaron]]	+
-	* [[Epistles]]	+
-	* [[Gnosticism]]	+
-	* [[Injil]]	+
-	* [[List of New Testament papyri]]	+
-	* ''[[The Missing Gospels]]''	+
-	* [[New Testament apocrypha]]	+
-	* [[Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible]]	+
-	* [[Pseudepigraphy]]	+
-	* [[Textual criticism]]	+
-	* [[Toledot Yeshu]] – medieval Jewish version of the story of Jesus	+
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