When Jesus was alive, the population of the Earth was much less than it is now. Apparently, scholars have estimated that their might have been one, or two dozen people with the name Jesus in, and around Jerusalem when Jesus lived.
Jesus wasn't called Jesus - he was called ישוע (Yeshua), which is far closer to the modern name Joshua.
We call him Jesus because it comes through two Chinese-whisper style translations, first into Greek Iēsoûs and Latin Iesus.
Even if you just count "Jesus" and not the many variants there are 260,359 in the US alone, and it is not a common name there by any means. It's a pretty safe bet that there are more than 750 thousand people named "Jesus" in all of south America.
The name Jesus was the sixth most popular name in first century Palestine. I don’t know how many people that translates to, but there are two other men named Jesus in scripture.
It is the man named Jesus from Nazareth that we recognize as The Christ - The Anointed One of God - The Saviour of the world.
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When Jesus was alive, the population of the Earth was much less than it is now. Apparently, scholars have estimated that their might have been one, or two dozen people with the name Jesus in, and around Jerusalem when Jesus lived.
I don't think so, but I think there has been, and there will be only the Name of Jesus on earth, no one else can take his place!
The same goes for the name Judas, do you know if anyone on earth is called Judas? The one who betrayed Jesus Christ? eh?
the creature "jesus of nazareth" featured in the cult book, BuyBull,
is an imaginary cult creature. He doesn't exist, and never did.
Jesus wasn't called Jesus - he was called ישוע (Yeshua), which is far closer to the modern name Joshua.
We call him Jesus because it comes through two Chinese-whisper style translations, first into Greek Iēsoûs and Latin Iesus.
Even if you just count "Jesus" and not the many variants there are 260,359 in the US alone, and it is not a common name there by any means. It's a pretty safe bet that there are more than 750 thousand people named "Jesus" in all of south America.
The name Jesus was the sixth most popular name in first century Palestine. I don’t know how many people that translates to, but there are two other men named Jesus in scripture.
It is the man named Jesus from Nazareth that we recognize as The Christ - The Anointed One of God - The Saviour of the world.