Jesus’ Name Etymology

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Some people debate whether to refer to the Messiah as Jesus or Yeshua (or Yahshua). Anyone who says you can’t call him anything other than Yeshua/Yahshua says he doesn’t respond to prayers from people who call him different names from other languages. I’m pretty confident that when Greek believers in the 1st Century prayed in the name Iēsous (“Jesus”), they achieved the same results that Hebrew- and Aramaic-speaking Jews achieved with Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ). Otherwise, the Bible would have said you can only say Yeshua.

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