“In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name” (Matthew 6:9).
“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18).
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen (Matthew 28:18-20).
The Name of Jesus
The name “Jesus” in Hebrew literally means “God saves.” The name “Jesus” in Hebrew is “Yeshua.”
In the Old Testament, Yeshua was an alternative form of the name Yehoshua, Hebrew for Joshua (Numbers 13:16, 1 Chronicles 7:27).
Therefore, Jesus is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua.
The name Yeshua is related to the Hebrew verb root “rescue” and one of its noun forms, yesua, “deliverance.”
Yeshua in Greek is “lesous,” and in Latin is “lesus.” The name Jesus in English comes from lesous and lesus.
Christ
In the New Testament, which was written in Greek, “Christ” in the Greek is the word “christos,” which means “anointed.”
In the Old Testament, which was written in Hebrew, the word for “Messiah” is “mashiach,” which also means “anointed.”
Therefore, the Greek word for Christ, “christos,” is the Greek equivalent for the Hebrew word for Messiah, “mashiach.”
Therefore, His name could properly be written and spoken as, “Jesus the Anointed One.”
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