Pope John Paul II is among those who claim he was much more than these callings. "Christ" is derived from “ krystos”, a Greek word that roughly translates to "messiah," Hebrew for "the anointed one."Ĭircumcised and confirmed as a Jew, Jesus has been described as a magician and healer, a religious and social revolutionary, a secular Cynic-like sage, a Jewish-version of Socrates, a charismatic cult leader, and a radical peasant philosopher. It is Greek version of the Hebrew name Joshua (meaning "savior"). Jesus was a very common Hebrew boy's name in Biblical times. This is quite an accomplishment for a man who died in his thirties as a criminal in a backwater of the Roman Empire and left his mark during three years as an itinerant teacher.įrom what can be ascertained Jesus was a real person but whether he was the Son of God and rose from the dead to die for the sins of mankind as the Bible claims is matter of faith. Based on the number of books written about him (17,239 in 1999 in the Library of Congress collection), Jesus is the world's most famous person and arguably has had more of an impact of the world than anyone else in the history of mankind. Jesus is an English version of the name Iesus which is a Latinized version of the Aramaic name Yeshu’a.
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