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{{short description|Non-canonical Christian gospel}}
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{{Infobox religious text
| name       = Gospel of Andrew
| subheader  = {{Script/Nastaliq|إنجيل أندراوس}}
| image      = File:Gospel of Andrew – Chapter 2 (Deltinian Arabic).png
| background = #D3D3D3 
| caption    = Chapter 2 of the Gospel of Andrew
| religion   = Christianity
| author     = Unknown {{small|(pseudepigrapha attributed to Andrew the Apostle)}}
| period     = {{circa}} 1200s – early 1300s
| language   = [[Deltinian language|Deltinian]]
| chapters   = 4
| verses     = 49 total
}}

The '''Gospel of Andrew''' ([[Deltinian language|Deltinian]]: {{Script/Nastaliq|إنجيل أندراوس}}; {{small|transliteration:}} {{transl|ar|DIN|D Andrio Injeel}}; [[Creeperian language|Creeperian]]: Եվանգելիո դե Անդրէս / ''Evangelio de Andrés''), also sometimes called the '''Gospel of the Deltinians''' (Եվանգելիո դե լոս'Դելտինիանոս / ''Evangelio de los'Deltinianos'') in [[Creeperopolis]], is a non-canonical Christian gospel which claims to depict the birth, death, and resurrection of [[Jesus]], as well as record several of his sayings which he reportedly said during his ministry. Despite being attributed to Andrew the Apostle, the gospel has been dated to have been written sometime during the 13th to early 14th centuries during the [[Creeperian Crusade]] in [[Sur]]. 

The gospel was first mentioned in 1329 by Cardinal [[Adémar Puyal Cisneros]] in an edict denouncing the text as pseudepigraphical (false attribution) and heretical work. The original text was written in the [[Deltinian language]] rather than in [[Hebrew]] or [[Romanyan Iberic language|Romanyan Iberic]] from 1st century [[Judea (Romanyan province)|Judea]] which helped identify the work as a not an original work from the 1st century AD. Puyal Cisneros ordered the gospel’s destruction, and for centuries, it was thought to be a lost work. In 1955, the original text was discovered in the underground archives of the [[Cathedral of San Miguel the Liberator]] in [[La'Victoria]]. The gospel was copied and translated and has since been preserved and put on display in the [[Museum of National Creeperian History]] in [[San Salvador, San Salvador|San Salvador]].

The Gospel of Andrew is the most recent New Testament apocrypha to be formally denounced and suppressed by the [[Creeperian Catholic Church]]. After its rediscovery in 1955, the initially Church blocked efforts to copy and translate the text, but in 1957, [[Pope Pío XII]] allowed the [[Ministry of Internal Affairs of Creeperopolis|Ministry of Internal Affairs]] of Creeperopolis to copy, translate, and preserve the Gospel of Andrew for its historic value.

== Textual history ==

=== Condemnation and ordered destruction ===

[[File:Adémar Francisco de Jiménez y del Nuevo Amanecer Puyal Cisneros.png|thumb|right|200px|Cardinal [[Adémar Puyal Cisneros]] declared the Gospel of Andrew as heretical in 1329.]]

The first mention of the Gospel of Andrew occurred in 1329 in an edict written by [[Adémar Puyal Cisneros]], the [[Diocese of La'Victoria|bishop of La'Victoria]] and a cardinal of the [[Creeperian Catholic Church]], who denounced the text as a heretical work and as pseudepigraphical (false attribution), stating that the text is not an original work from the 1st century, but instead, that it is a forgery written sometime in the 1200s or early-1300s. His edict cited several verses within the text which contradicted the canon of the four canonical gospels of the [[Creeperian Catholic Bible]]: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The edict also cited that the text was written in [[Deltinian language|Deltinian]], instead of [[Hebrew]] or [[Romanyan Iberic language|Romanyan Iberic]] from 1st century [[Judea (Romanyan province)|Judea]].

Puyal Cisneros ordered the text to be destroyed in his edict, and the text was not mentioned again in any other document from the era. The text was next mentioned in the 1645 book ''[[Historia de la'Biblia]]'' by [[Simeón Cañas Villacorta]], the first rector of the [[Antonio Sáenz Heredia University|University of Nuevo Xichútepa]], which briefly mentioned the existence of the gospel and the edict issued by Puyal Cisneros denouncing it. In the book, Cañas Villacorta stated that: "any hopes of finding the original contents of the so-called 'Gospel of Andrew' are effectively none as it was destroyed on orders of Cardinal Saint Adémar Francisco Puyal Cisneros and was likely never copied".

After its mentioning by Cañas Villacorta, interest in the Gospel of Andrew within academia grew, with several Creeperian students and professors theorizing what the contents of the gospel could have possibly been. Outside of academia, the Gospel of Andrew remained an obscure, long-lost, Crusade-era heretical text which the average Creeperian had no knowledge of, mostly as a result of its suppression by the Creeperian Catholic Church and the restriction of the spread of information by the Creeperian government.

=== Rediscovery, translation, and preservation ===

In 1955, during renovations of the [[Cathedral of San Miguel the Liberator]] in [[La'Victoria]], a group of workers found a locked box in the underground archives of the cathedral labelled "Evangelio de Herejía–Andrés" (Gospel of Heresy–Andrew). The box was removed and brought to the attention of [[José Galván Salinas]], the bishop of La'Victoria, who ordered the opening of the box. Upon its opening, several pages written in Arabic were uncovered, and upon acquiring a translator, the book was confirmed to be the thought-to-be lost Gospel of Andrew. Galván Salinas announced the discovery on 17 October 1955, which caused controversy within the hierarchy of the Creeperian Catholic Church. The [[Ministry of Internal Affairs of Creeperopolis|Ministry of Internal Affairs]] of Creeperopolis was interested in acquiring possession of the text, copying it, translating it, and preserving it for its historic value, however, the ministry was denied by the Church, which wanted to dispose of the work as was originally ordered by Puyal Cisneros in 1329.

After two years, [[Pope Pío XII]] granted his official approval to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to copy, translate, and preserve the work in order to further learn and understand the history of the Crusade-era Church. The Gospel of Andrew was translated between 1957 and 1959 by translators [[José Maricón Figueroa]] and [[Augusto Ferrer Galdámez]]. The original text was kept private by the ministry until 1980, when it was placed into a display case in the [[Museum of National Creeperian History]] in [[San Salvador, San Salvador|San Salvador]], where it presently remains on display. After an attack on various objects in the museum in 1989, bulletproof glass was installed where the Gospel of Andrew was displayed.

== Comparison to the four canonical gospels ==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Item 
! 4 canonical gospels
! Gospel of Andrew

|-
| New Covenant
| Central theme
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Forgiveness
| Very important
| {{partial2|Important, but damnation also emphasized}}

|-
| The Lord's Prayer
| Mentioned
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| The Beatitudes
| Mentioned
| {{yes2}} Mentioned

|-
| The Greatest Commandment
| Mentioned
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Jesus' ministry
| Recounted
| {{partial2|Sayings mentioned}}

|-
| Disciples-number
| Twelve
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Virgin birth account
| Mentioned
| {{yes2}} Mentioned

|-
| Jesus' baptism
| Recounted
| {{partial2|Mentioned}}

|-
| Preaching style
| Parables
| {{partial2|Sayings}}

|-
| Storytelling
| Parables
| {{no|Not present}}

|-
| Miracles
| Many miracles
| {{no|Not present}}

|-
| Duration of ministry
| Three years
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Location of ministry
| [[Judea (Romanyan province)|Judea]]
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Arrest
| Mentioned
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Before Pilate
| Mentioned
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Carrying of the cross
| Mentioned
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|-
| Crucifixion
| Mentioned
| {{yes2}} Mentioned

|-
| Resurrection
| Mentioned
| {{yes2}} Mentioned

|-
| Ascension
| Mentioned
| {{no|Not mentioned}}

|}

== Author ==

The author of the Gospel of Andrew is unknown as it was published anonymously under the pseudepigraphic name Andrew in reference to Saint Andrew, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus. The author is presumed to be a [[Creeperans|Creeperian]] who had knowledge of the Deltinian language, or possibly even a [[Deltinians|Deltinian]] who wrote the gospel in an effort to negatively affect the Creeperian Catholic Church. In Puyal Cisneros' edict denouncing the Gospel of Andrew, he excommunicated the gospel's author.

== See also ==

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* [[Creeperian Catholic Bible]]

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