The Infancy Gospel of James is attributed to James the Just but was certainly written no later than the 2nd century ; it lays out additional details of Mary's life.

Here he continued until Queen Mary's succession to the throne, when the Gospel and true religion were banished, and the Antichrist of Rome, with his superstition and idolatry, introduced.

Other Churches and places of worship in Inverurie include St Mary's Church ( Scottish Episcopal ), The Roman Catholic Church, The Baptist Church, The Gospel Hall and the Salvation Army Meeting Hall.

Mary's virginity even after her conception of Jesus is regularly represented in the Christian art of both the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox ( as well as in early Western religious art ) by including in Nativity scenes the figure of Salome, whom the Gospel of James presents as finding that Mary had preserved her virginity even in giving birth to her son.

The nativity account ( Gospel of Luke ) begins with Mary and Joseph ( Mary's betrothed ) traveling to Bethlehem to be enrolled in the Roman census ordered by Augustus Caesar.

In the apocryphal Gospel, Jesus has already been born and so Joseph's truculence is unrelated to any dismay over Mary's pregnancy, but has to do with an inability to reach the fruits of the palm and a concern over the family's lack of water.

The St. John's Gospel further invited attention to Mary's heart with its depiction of Mary at the foot of the cross at Jesus ' crucifixion.

A few of Mary's sayings, also recorded in the Gospel, particularly the Magnificat ( the words Mary is reported to have said to describe the experience of being pregnant with Jesus ), disclose new features in Marian psychology.

According with this scholar chapters 6-11 ( the Vision ) are older than chapters 1-5 ( which represent a later pessimistic introduction to the original Vision ), the date of composition is the end of 1 century AD, and the narrative of Mary's pregnancy ( AI 11: 2-5 ) is independent from the Gospel of Matthew.

The prescribed readings for the feast day were, the prophecy of the Messiah, and from the Gospel of Luke,, Mary's visit to Elizabeth, including her song of praise, the Magnificat.

However, in his 2004 book The Gospel According to Disney, Mark Pinsky asserts that a child in the current environment ( as opposed to in the late 1960s ) would not discern any racial dimension to the portrayal.

Some scholars have suggested that the portrayal in the Gospel of Mark of the initial rejection of Jesus by his family may be related to the tension between Paul of Tarsus and Jewish Christians, who held Jesus ' family in high regard, for example at the Council of Jerusalem.

Notable performances that reflect this mandate include the Last Empress with its dramatic, musical portrayal of an important figure in Korean history, the Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company, South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir, Shaolin Warriors, Ricky Cheng, David Rudder & Friends and Club Tropicana.

This portrayal of Mariamne fits very well with the portrayal of Mary of Magdala in the Manichean Psalms, the Gospel of Mary, and Pistis Sophia.

Toward the end of his life, Jones was noted for his stage portrayal of Creon in a 1988 musical version of the Oedipus legend, The Gospel at Colonus.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

It was the mission of the Apostles to go forth into all the world and preach the Gospel, baptizing those who believed in the name of the Holy Trinity ().

[...] At this time atheism was regarded as the Christian Gospel that should be preached to the world.

It is also active in the World Methodist Council, an interdenominational group composed of various churches in the tradition of John Wesley to promote the Gospel throughout the world.

Although Hebrew and Greek words meaning " world " are used in Scripture with the normal variety of senses, many examples of its use in this particular sense can be found in the teachings of Jesus according to the Gospel of John, e. g. 7: 7, 8: 23, 12: 25, 14: 17, 15: 18-19, 17: 6-25, 18: 36.

Melanchthon looked upon the law as not only the correlate of the Gospel, by which its effect of salvation is prepared, but as the unchangeable order of the spiritual world which has its basis in God himself.

In the Gospel of Mark 16: 14, after the resurrection, Jesus " was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat " At the meal, Jesus " said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

A belief that the disciple whom Jesus loved would not die before the Second Coming was apparently popular enough in the early Christian world to be denounced in the Gospel of John:

" he Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were charged with new significance.

The overriding concern of The Gospel of Thomas is to find the light within in order to be a light unto the world.

Part II covers Christ's Passion and his death, his Resurrection and Ascension, the first spreading of the Gospel through the world, and a definitive statement of God's glory summarised in the " Hallelujah ".

Armstrong proclaimed that behind world events during his lifespan loomed various Biblical prophecies, and that he was called by God as an ' Apostle ' and end-time ' Elijah ' to proclaim the Gospel of God's Kingdom to the World before the return of Jesus Christ.

Herrnhut, between Löbau and Zittau, founded in 1722 by religious refugees from Moravia on the estate of Count von Zinzendorf became the starting point of the organized Protestant missionary movement in 1732 and missionaries went out from the Moravian Church in Herrnhut to all corners of the world to share the Gospel.

The title Lamb of God ( in Latin Agnus Dei ) appears in the Gospel of John, with the exclamation of John the Baptist: " Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world " in John 1: 29 when he sees Jesus.

The title Lamb of God for Jesus appears only in the Gospel of John, with the initial proclamation: " Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world " in John 1: 29, the title reaffirmed the next day in John 1: 36.

According to the Second Vatican Council these Eastern Churches, along with the larger Latin Church share " equal dignity, so that none of them is superior to the others as regards rite, and they enjoy the same rights and are under the same obligations, also in respect of preaching the Gospel to the whole world ( cf.

Many Christians consider it their obligation to follow what is often termed the Great Commission of Jesus, recorded in the final verses of the Gospel of Matthew: " Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

According to its first issue, the magazine's purpose was to draw attention to Russell's belief that people of the time were " living " in the last days " " the day of the Lord "—" the end " of the Gospel age ," and that " the dawn of the " new " age, are facts not only discernible by the close student of the Word, led by the spirit, but the outward signs recognizable by the world bear the same testimony.

The Church, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, which is the Body of Christ, founded by Christ for the redemption and sanctification of mankind, and to which Church He gave power and authority to preach His Gospel to the whole world under the guidance of His Holy Spirit.

Once in this state of housing the Holy Spirit within themselves, the Perfect were believed to have become " trans-material " or semi-angelic, not yet released from the confines of the body but containing within them an enhanced spirituality which linked them to God even in this world, as expressed in the Gospel of Luke.

He ascribed these aspects and characteristics as two principles, the righteous and wrathful God of the Old Testament, who is at the same time identical with the creator of the world, and a second God of the Gospel, quite unknown before Christ, who is only love and mercy.

This placement of the Gospel Book also represents the activity of Christ at the Creation ( the square Altar representing the created world ).

The Gospel rests upon the antimension, which remains on the Altar at all times, as Christ will remain with the Church until the end of the world ().

The largest mega church in the United States is Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas with more than 40, 000 members every weekend and the current largest megachurch in the world is South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church, with more than 830, 000 members as of 2007.

" Richard, the publick standard of the Gospel is fallen in Scotland ; and, if I know anything of the mind of the Lord, ye are called to undergo your trials before us, and go home and lift the fallen standard, and display it before the world.

The essentially undecorated text is the Gospel of John in Latin, written in a script that has been regarded as a model of elegant simplicity.

The Church historian Eusebius suggested, essentially, that Greek philosophy had been supplied providentially as a preparation for the Gospel.

As far as the Holy Liturgy was concerned this meant that it was essentially transformed into the " Gospel " and " Apostle " books.

This Gospel contains few narrative elements ; essentially, the Gospel records how Judas was taught by Jesus the true meaning of his message, and was then stoned to death by the other disciples.

It essentially originates as part of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, and was treated as an independent work around the ninth century.

Many editions of the Gospel essentially present it as beginning at Matthew 1: 18 for this very reason.