Jesus

== Name ==

{{further|Jesus (name)|Holy Name of Jesus|Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament|Names of God in Christianity}}
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[[File:JesusYeshua2.svg|thumb|Counter-clockwise from top-right: [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Aramaic]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and English transcriptions of the name ''Jesus''|upright=1.2]]

=== Naming conventions ===
A typical Jew in Jesus' time [[Jewish name|had only one name]], sometimes [[Patronymic|followed by the phrase "son of [father's name]"]], or the individual's hometown.<ref name="Britannica" /> Thus, in the New Testament, Jesus is commonly referred to as "Jesus of [[Nazareth]]".{{efn|This article uses quotes from the [[New Revised Standard Version]] of the Bible.}} Jesus' neighbours in Nazareth referred to him as "the carpenter, the son of [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]] and brother of [[James, brother of Jesus|James]] and [[Joses, brother of James the younger|Joses]] and [[Jude, brother of Jesus|Judas]] and [[Simon, brother of Jesus|Simon]]", "the carpenter's son", or "[[Saint Joseph|Joseph]]'s son"; in the Gospel of John, the disciple [[Philip the Apostle|Philip]] refers to him as "Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth".

===Etymology===
The English name ''Jesus'', from Greek ''Iēsous'', is a rendering of ''Joshua'' (Hebrew ''Yehoshua'', later ''Yeshua''), and was not uncommon in Judea at the time of the birth of Jesus. Popular etymology linked the names ''Yehoshua'' and ''Yeshua'' to the verb meaning "save" and the noun "salvation".{{sfn|Hare|1993|p=11}} The [[Gospel of Matthew]] tells of an [[angel]] that appeared to [[Saint Joseph|Joseph]] instructing him "to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins".<ref>{{bibleverse|Matthew|1:21}}.</ref>

===Jesus Christ===
Since the early period of Christianity, Christians have commonly referred to Jesus as "Jesus Christ".{{sfn|Doninger|1999|p=212}} The word ''[[Christ (title)|Christ]]'' was a [[Threefold office|title or office]] ("the Christ"), not a given name.{{sfn|Pannenberg|1968|pp=30–31}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Theology of the New Testament| first=Rudolf K.|last= Bultmann |year=2007 |isbn= 978-1-932792-93-5 |page= 80 |publisher=Baylor University Press}}</ref> It derives from the Greek {{lang|grc|[[wikt:Χριστός|Χριστός]]}} (''Christos''),<ref name="CE name">{{CathEncy |wstitle= Origin of the Name of Jesus Christ |first= Anthony J. |last= Maas}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Heil |first=John P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4u42_PsPNsC&pg=PA66 |title=Philippians: Let Us Rejoice in Being Conformed to Christ |publisher=Society of Biblical Literature |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-58983-482-8 |page=66 |access-date=14 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907173832/https://books.google.com/books?id=i4u42_PsPNsC&pg=PA66 |archive-date=7 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> a translation of the Hebrew ''[[Messiah in Judaism|mashiakh]]'' ({{lang|he| [[wikt:מָשִׁיחַ|משיח]]}}) meaning "[[anointing|anointed]]", and is usually transliterated into English as "[[messiah]]".{{sfn|Vine|1940|pp=274–75}} In biblical Judaism, [[Holy anointing oil|sacred oil]] was used to anoint certain exceptionally holy people and objects as part of their religious investiture.<ref>See [[Leviticus]] 8:10–12 and [[Exodus 30]]:29.</ref>

Christians of the time designated Jesus as "the Christ" because they believed him to be the messiah, whose arrival is [[Jesus and messianic prophecy|prophesied]] in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and Old Testament. In postbiblical usage, ''Christ'' became viewed as a name—one part of "Jesus Christ". [[wikt:etymon|Etymons]] of the term ''[[Christians|Christian]]'' (meaning a follower of Christ) have been in use since the 1st century.{{sfn|Mills|Bullard|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=goq0VWw9rGIC&pg=PA142 142]}}