Jesus

===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]}}