Gospel Definition

The word “Gospel” means “Good News”. It comes from the Olde English gōdspel, from gōd [good] + spel [news, a story]. It is the word used to define the Latin word eujaggelivzw, which means the following:

to bring good news, to announce glad tidings used in the OT of any kind of good news of the joyful tidings of God’s kindness, in particular, of the Messianic blessings in the NT used especially of the glad tidings of the coming kingdom of God, and of the salvation to be obtained in it through Christ, and of what relates to this salvation glad tidings are brought to one, one has glad tidings proclaimed to him to proclaim glad tidings instruct (men) concerning the things that pertain to Christian salvation