Jesus’ Name Etymology

Some people fight over whether or not to call the Messiah Jesus or Yeshua (or Yahshua). As far as I am concerned, anyone who says you can’t call him anything other than Yeshua/Yahshua is saying he doesn’t respond to prayers from people who call on him different names from other languages. I’m pretty confident that when Greek believers in the 1st Century called the name Iēsous (“Jesus”) they got the same results that Hebrew and Aramaic-speaking Jews got with Yeshua, otherwise, the Bible would have said you can only say Yeshua.

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