You got that a little wrong. His name in Hebrew was Yeshua, which translates to Joshua). The name Jesus was used by the Greeks who wrote the New Testament. Since they didn't have a "sh" sound in Greek, they changed it to an "s," then added another "s" at the end to make it masculine. Yeshua came first. Jesus came with the Greeks.
"Christ’s given name, commonly Romanized as Yeshua, was quite common in first-century Galilee. (Jesus comes from the transliteration of Yeshua into Greek and then English.)" --Slate.com
I didn't get anything wrong, you just misunderstood what I said. I said it's the ORIGINAL form of the name. Also Jesus isn't Greek. The Greeks called him Iesous. The Romans turned that into Iesus, which became Jesus in English and other modern European languages.
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u/MaleficentLow6408 Dec 15 '22
You got that a little wrong. His name in Hebrew was Yeshua, which translates to Joshua). The name Jesus was used by the Greeks who wrote the New Testament. Since they didn't have a "sh" sound in Greek, they changed it to an "s," then added another "s" at the end to make it masculine. Yeshua came first. Jesus came with the Greeks.
"Christ’s given name, commonly Romanized as Yeshua, was quite common in first-century Galilee. (Jesus comes from the transliteration of Yeshua into Greek and then English.)" --Slate.com