A gospel is an account describing the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The most widely known examples are the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but the term is also used to refer to apocryphal gospels, non-canonical gospels, Jewish-Christian gospels, and gnostic gospels.

Christianity traditionally places a high value on the four canonical gospels, which it considers to be a revelation from God and central to its belief system. Many Christians teach that the four canonical gospels are an accurate and authoritative representation of the life of Jesus, but many scholars believe that not everything contained in the gospels is historically reliable. For example, according to Linda Woodhead, "the gospels’ birth and resurrection narratives can be explained as attempts to fit Jesus’ life into the logic of Jewish expectation".