BARNABAS, Gospel of, an apocryphal work ascribed to Barnabas, wherein the history of Jesus Christ is related in a manner very different from the account given us by the four evangelists. The Mahometans possess this gospel in Arabic, and it corresponds very well with those traditions which Mahomet followed in his Koran. It was probably a forgery of some nominal Christians, and afterwards altered and interpolated by the Mahometans, the better to serve their purpose. It has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and English.