Getting Started

What do you think of when you hear the word “gospel”? Is it an old-fashioned word used by a certain brand of Christianity? Well, it turns out we’re looking at four books that are each called “Gospels” and that Mark, in particular, wants us to understand what the gospel—or “good news”—really is. Let’s find out what people in the first century might have thought it was and what Mark’s alternative is.