What is the gospel?

The gospel is the good news about Jesus: that he is the promised King, that he died for our sins, was buried, and was raised on the third day, just as the Scriptures said he would be (1 Corinthians 15:1-5). It is news before it is advice. It announces what God has done in Jesus to rescue people and to set the world right.

These answers follow that good news through the whole story of the Bible, from God's promises to Israel to the kingdom Jesus announced, and explain why Scripture calls it a matter of first importance.