Editing Jesus (section)

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

A typical Jew in Jesus's time [[Jewish name|had only one name]], sometimes followed by a [[patronymic]] phrase of the form "son of [father's name]", or the person's home town.<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's 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".<ref>{{bibleverse|John|1:45}}</ref>

The English name ''Jesus'', ({{langx|grc|Ἰησοῦς}}, romanized {{tlit|grc|Iēsous}}), is a rendering of ''Joshua'' ({{langx|he|יֵשׁוּעַ|label=[[Hebrew]] or [[Aramaic]]}}, romanized {{tlit|he|Yehoshua}}, later {{tlit|he|Yeshua}}), and was not uncommon in Judea at the time of the birth of Jesus. The [[Gospel of Matthew]] tells of an [[angel]] that appeared to 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]]}} ({{tlit|grc|Christos}}),<ref>{{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 {{tlit|he|[[Messiah in Judaism|mashiakh]]}} ({{lang|he|[[wikt:מָשִׁיחַ|משיח]]}}) meaning '[[anointed]]', and is usually transliterated into English as ''[[messiah]]''.{{sfn|Vine|1940|pp=274–275}} 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". The term ''[[Christian]]'' (meaning a follower of Christ) has been in use since the 1st century.{{sfn|Mills|Bullard|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=goq0VWw9rGIC&pg=PA142 142]}}