Linda Caroll
1 min readSep 27, 2020

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Interesting, right? I mean - the name alone is filled with puzzles.

Jesus and his followers were all Jewish so they had Hebrew names. though they likely spoke Aramaic.

The “J” sound used to pronounce Jesus’ name does not exist in Hebrew or Aramaic, which is strong evidence that Jesus was called something entirely different

Many scholars believe the Christian Messiah’s name was “Yeshua,” a fairly common Jewish name around the time Jesus was alive.

However, the New Testament was originally written in Greek, which not only uses an entirely different alphabet than Hebrew but also lacks the “sh” sound found in “Yeshua.”

The New Testament authors decided to use the Greek “s” sound in place of the “sh” in Yeshua and then added a final “s” to the end of the name to make it masculine.

Oh wait?! To make it masculine?

In the womb of whatever the Savior's name was? Perhaps the savior was a woman? Blasphemy, right?

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