List of Gospels

Canonical gospels

• Synoptic gospels
• * Gospel of Mark
• ** Longer ending of Mark
• * Gospel of Matthew
• * Gospel of Luke
• Gospel of John

  Hypothesized sources of the synoptic gospels

• Cross Gospel – John Dominic Crossan's proposed source of the Passion narrative in Mark
• Q source – Q is material common to Matthew and Luke, but not found in Mark
• M Source – M is material unique to Matthew
• L source – L is material unique to Luke

  Hypothesized sources of the Gospel of John

• Signs Gospel – narrative of the Seven Signs
• Discourses Gospel – source of the discourse material

  Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha

Gnostic gospels

• Gospel of Thomas – The Gospel of Thomas is a non-canonical sayings gospel.
• Gospel of Marcion – second century, potentially an edited version of the Gospel of Luke or a document that antedates Luke
• Gospel of Basilides – composed in Egypt around 120 to 140 AD, thought to be a gnostic gospel harmony of the canonical gospels
• Gospel of Truth – mid-second century, departed from earlier gnostic works by admitting and defending the physicality of Christ and his resurrection
• Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms – mid-second century, thought to be a gnostic cosmology, most likely in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples
• Gospel of Mary – second century
• Gospel of Judas – second century
• Greek Gospel of the Egyptians – second quarter of the second century
• Gospel of Philip
• Pseudo-Gospel of the Twelve – a Syriac language gospel titled the Gospel of the Twelve, this work is shorter than the regular gospels and seems to be different from the lost Gospel of the Twelve.
• Gospel of Perfection – fourth century, an Ophite poem that is only mentioned once by a single patristic source, Epiphanius, and is referred to once in the sixth-century Syriac Infancy Gospel
• Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians – also called Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit

  Jewish-Christian gospels

• Gospel of the Hebrews
• Gospel of the Nazarenes
• Gospel of the Ebionites
• Gospel of the Twelve

  Infancy gospels

• Armenian Infancy Gospel
• Protoevangelium of James
• Libellus de Nativitate Sanctae Mariae
• Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
• History of Joseph the Carpenter
• Infancy Gospel of Thomas
• Latin Infancy Gospel
• Syriac Infancy Gospel

  Other gospels

• Gospel of the Lots of Mary

  Partially preserved gospels

• Gospel of Peter

  Fragmentary preserved gospels

• Gospel of Eve – mentioned only once by Epiphanius around 400, who preserves a single brief passage in quotation
• Gospel of Mani – third century – attributed to the Persian Mani, the founder of Manichaeism
• Gospel of the Saviour – highly fragmentary 6th-century manuscript based on a late second- or early third-century original, a dialogue rather than a narrative, heavily Gnostic in character in that salvation is dependent upon possessing secret knowledge
• Coptic Gospel of the Twelve – late second-century Coptic language work – although often equated with the Gospel of the Ebionites, it appears to be an attempt to retell the Gospel of John in the pattern of the Synoptics; it quotes extensively from John's Gospel.

  Reconstructed gospels

• Secret Gospel of Mark – suspect: the single source mentioning it is considered by many to be a modern forgery, and it disappeared before it could be independently authenticated.
• Gospel of Matthias

  Lost gospels

• Gospel of Cerinthus – around 90–120 AD – according to Epiphanius, this is a Jewish gospel identical to the Gospel of the Ebionites, and apparently, a truncated version of Matthew's Gospel according to the Hebrews.
• Gospel of Apelles – mid- to late second century, a further edited version of Marcion's edited version of Luke
• Gospel of Valentinus
• Gospel of the Encratites
• Gospel of Andrew – mentioned by only two fifth-century sources who list it as apocryphal
• Gospel of Barnabas – this work is mentioned only once, in the fifth-century Decree of Gelasius, which lists it as apocryphal – not to be confused with the 16th-century Gospel of Barnabas.
• Gospel of Bartholomew – mentioned by only two fifth-century sources, which list it as apocryphal,
• Gospel of Hesychius – mentioned only by Jerome and the Decree of Gelasius that list it as apocryphal.
• Gospel of Lucius – mentioned only by Jerome and the Decree of Gelasius that list it as apocryphal.
• Gospel of Merinthus – mentioned only by Epiphanius; probably the Gospel of Cerinthus, and the confusion due to a scribal error.
• An unknown number of other Gnostic gospels not cited by name.
• Gospel of the Adversary of the Law and the Prophets
• Memoirs of the Apostles – lost narrative of the life of Jesus, mentioned by Justin Martyr, the passages quoted by Justin may have originated from a gospel harmony of the Synoptic Gospels composed by Justin or his school.

  Fragments of possibly unknown or lost (or existing) gospels

• Papyrus Egerton 2 – late second-century manuscript of possibly earlier original; contents parallel John 5:39–47, 10:31–39; Matt 1:40–45, 8:1–4, 22:15–22; Mark 1:40–45, 12:13–17; and Luke 5:12–16, 17:11–14, 20:20–26, but differ textually; also contains incomplete miracle account with no equivalent in canonical Gospels
• Fayyum Fragment – a fragment of about 100 Greek letters in third-century script; the text seems to parallel Mark 14:26–31
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri – fragments #1, 654, and 655 appear to be fragments of Thomas; #210 is related to MT 7:17–19 and LK 6:43–44 but not identical to them; #840 contains a short vignette about Jesus and a Pharisee not found in any known gospel, the source text is probably mid 2nd century; #1224 consists of paraphrases of Mark 2:17 and Luke 9:50
• Gospel of Jesus' Wife – modern hoax based on Gospel of Thomas
• Papyrus Berolinensis 11710 – sixth-century Greek fragment, possibly from an apocryphal gospel or amulet based on John.
• Papyrus Cairensis 10735 – sixth- or seventh-century Greek fragment, possibly from a lost gospel, may be a homily or commentary
• Papyrus Merton 51 – fragment from apocryphal gospel or a homily on Luke 6:7
• Strasbourg Fragment – fragment of a lost gospel, probably related to Acts of John

  Medieval gospels

• Gospel of the Seventy – a lost eighth– or 9th-century Manichean work
• Gospel of Nicodemus – a post-10th-century Christian devotional work in many variants, the first section is highly dependent upon the fifth-century "Acts of Pilate"
• Gospel of Barnabas – a 16th-century harmony of the four canonical gospels, probably of Spanish origin, or possibly Italian
• Gospel of the Secret Supper – a 12th-century Cathar scripture

  Modern gospels

• The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
• Book of Mormon
• Crucifixion of Jesus, by an Eyewitness
• Essene Gospel of Peace
• The Fifth Gospel
• The Fifth Gospel
• The Fifth Gospel, Novel
• The Gospel Given at Ares
• Gospel of Jesus According to Gabriele Wittek
• Gospel of Josephus
• Gospel of the Childhood of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. Peter
• The Gospel of the Holy Twelve
• Life and Morals of Jesus
• Jehoshua the Nazir
• The Mystical Life of Jesus
• The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
• The Urantia Book
• Ur-Gospel of the Essenes
• Great Gospel of John
• The Jesus Scroll
• The Poem of the Man-God

  Footnotes