The second paragraph is largely derived and paraphrased from the words that Aradia, the messianic daughter of Diana, speaks to her followers in Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, London: David Nutt ; various reprints.

Item, take note that this office calls for excellency of life, so that just as the preacher speaks from a raised position, so he may also preach the Gospel from the mountain of an excellent life "

While describing how the Bible predicts Muhammad, he speaks of the " Gospel of Saint Barnabas where one can find the light " (" y así mismo en Evangelio de San Bernabé, donde se hallará la luz ").

Another passage in the Gospel of John speaks about a guard of the high priest who slaps Jesus ( John 18: 19-23, KJV ).

At one point, when we reach the first Gospel which speaks of the Crucifixion, there is a custom for the priest to bring out a large cross with an icon the crucified Christ attached to it, and places it in the center of the nave for all the faithful to venerate.

In some Christian denominations, law is often contrasted with grace ( see also Law and Gospel and Antithesis of the Law ): the contrast here speaks to attempts to gain salvation by obedience to a code of laws as opposed to seeking salvation through faith in the atonement made by Jesus on the cross.

Also, in the Gospel of John, Chapter 14, Christ speaks of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles ().

Christ is the Truth and the Way which the preaching of the Gospel lays open to all men when it speaks those words of Christ in their ear: " Repent, and believe in the Gospel " ( Mark 1 ; 15 ).

Monro writes, " In his autobiography he speaks of his own recurring miseries, his dry spells, his sense of unworthiness and dullness even in the act of preaching the Gospel, or while praying in his study ..." ( pp. 14-15 )

The " Astral body " is regarded as the " Philosopher's Stone " or " Living Stone " of the alchemist, the " Wedding Garment " ( golden ) that Christ speaks of in the Gospel of Matthew, the " soul body " that Paul mentions in the First Epistle to the Corinthians or the " Diamond Soul " spoken of in some of the ancient philosophies.

It is therefore significant that only the Fourth Gospel speaks of “ Bethsaida of Galilee .”

In the narrative of the baptism of Jesus by John, the voice of God speaks three times in close parallels to the Gospel of Mark, Luke ( Western text-type ), and Matthew, respectively.

The Gospel speaks of the name of the pool as Bethesda, its location near the Sheep Gate ; and the fact that it has five porticos ; with rushing water.

" These prayers in fact speaks of " the commemoration of the Body and Blood of your Christ, which we offer to you on the pure and holy altar, as you have taught us in his life-giving Gospel.

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:

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.

Under the name of Nebro ( rebel ), Yaldabaoth is called an angel in the apocryphal Gospel of Judas.

The name ' Diatessaron ' is Greek for ' through four '; the Syriac name for this gospel harmony is '' ( Ewangeliyôn Damhalltê ) meaning ' Gospel of the Mixed ' while in the other hand we have '' ( Evangelion de Mepharreshe ) meaning ' Gospel of the separated '.

This work was recently ( 2011 ) translated into the English language by David J. Miller and Adam C McCollum ( edited by Roger Pearse ) and was published under the name " Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions.

The name of " Muhammad " is frequently mentioned verbatim in the Gospel of Barnabas, as in the following quote:

However, while there are many passages where the Gospel of Barnabas sets out alternative readings to parallel pericopes found in the canonical gospels, none of the references to Muhammad by name occurs in such a synoptic passage ; and in particular, none of the " Muhammad " references in Barnabas corresponds to a " Paraclete " reference in canonical John.

The Gospel According to Mark does not name its author.

Although the Gospel survives in anonymous form, it is considered that the name was known to the addressee, Theophilus.

The Gospel is addressed to the author's patron, Theophilus, which in Greek simply means friend of God or ( be ) loved by God or loving God, and may not be a name but a generic term for a Christian.

The Gospel of Matthew does not name its author.

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 ().

Returning, his friend Bobby Byrd asked Brown to join his R & B group, the Avons, who had went under the previous name, the Gospel Starlighters, to avoid controversy with church leaders.

Agricola was the first to teach the views which Luther was the first to stigmatize by the name Antinomian, maintaining that while non-Christians were still held to the Mosaic law, Christians were entirely free from it, being under the gospel alone, see also Law and Gospel.

John the Evangelist ( יוחנן Standard Hebrew Yoḥanan, Tiberian Hebrew Yôḥānān meaning " Yahweh is gracious ", Greek: Εὐαγγελιστής Ἰωάννης ) ( c. AD 1 – c. 100 ) is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John.

Traditional Christian thought on the subject points to St. John the Apostle as the author of the Gospel, the three Epistles and the Book of Revelation that bear his name, and there is some internal textual evidence to suggest they may have been authored by the same person ( see textual criticism ).

The author of the Gospel of John never identifies himself by name, but the text identifies him as the " Beloved Disciple " repeatedly referred to in the Gospel.

The Gospel of Luke was written around AD 70 to 90, and it is from here that the name was first popularised.

If one accepts that Luke was in fact the author of the Gospel bearing his name and also the Acts of the Apostles, certain details of his personal life can be reasonably assumed.

The Gospel of John suggests that it was probably used as a mikvah ( ritual bath ), although mikvahs are usually much smaller in size ; if the pool were a mikvah, it would be the largest ever found, by a substantial margin.

An additional hint may have been taken from the account of the Pool of Bethesda in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus heals a man at the pool in Jerusalem.

The Gospel of John describes such a pool in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

Until the 19th century, there was no evidence outside of John ’ s Gospel for the existence of this pool ; therefore, scholars argued that the gospel was written later, probably by someone without first-hand knowledge of the city of Jerusalem, and that the ‘ pool ’ had only a metaphorical, rather than historical, significance.

In the 19th century, archaeologists discovered the remains of a pool fitting the description in John ’ s Gospel.

This archaeological discovery proved beyond a doubt that the description of this pool in the Gospel of John was not the creation of the Evangelist.

This archaeological discovery proved beyond a doubt that the description of this pool in the Gospel of John was not the creation of the Evangelist, but instead reflected an accurate and detailed knowledge of the site.