The New Testament is the story of the New Covenant told in 27 books. Four of these books are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. But the Gospel is much more than a book. The word itself means “good news” (it is the English translation of the Latin word evangelium), and that is what the Gospel is: the Good News of our salvation. It is the entirety of God’s saving message for us: that He loves us so much that He assumed a human nature and became man, died on a cross, and rose again so that we could have eternal life. If we were to describe the Gospel on one word, however, it would simply be Jesus.