i mean was joseph and marys last name christ?? if not what is his real last name?
2006-12-11 00:43:10 · 20 answers · asked by greg_lang2006 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And, of course, His name wasn't "Jesus", that was just his Green/English version of it.
"Jesus Christ" = Yeshua Ha'Mashiach
Jesus the Christ = Jesus, the Messiah.
Back 2000 years ago there were not surnames, as such, for most people. Usually they were known by a given name and then "bar" (son of) and then their father's name.
Example:
James and John, sons of Zebedee
James bar Zebedee
John bar Zebedee
2006-12-11 00:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christ is another word for Messiah. the correct way to refer to Jesus is Jesus the Christ or Christ Jesus. It is a title, not a name.
2006-12-11 00:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he would have been Jesus ben Joseph (Jesus, son of Joseph).
Christ designates him as the Messiah.
I wondered that too when I was younger. I honestly pictured a sign: Christ and Sons, Carpenters.
2006-12-11 00:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
t would be very easy to think that "Christ" is a surname for Jesus. It's not, it means "anointed" or "anointed one".
The fact that many Christian themselves use it incorrectly adds to the confusion.
It ought to be Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ.
There weren't last names then the way we have them now. People were known by their first names and then "son of" or "daughter of".
Jesus would have, to the best of my knowledge, been known as Jeshua ben Joseph. (Jeshua, son of Joseph).
2006-12-11 03:33:24 · answer #4 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. His name was Yeshua. Jesus Christ comes from the Greek translation.
2016-05-23 04:55:20 · answer #5 · answered by Annette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at that time there were too any Smiths going around and the Jones name was a bit boring too. Seriously I do think that the name comes from something to do with the cross in old Aramaeic languages and it was as far as I heard from a church once Cristo ..Now I am not sure nor did I look further into it. Funny how after all this time nobody even bothers where names come from or how they were attached to a person, or why buildings are named after people and nobody knows who or why it is named that.
2006-12-11 00:50:09 · answer #6 · answered by colinhughes333 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christ is not a name, it's a title! The word Christ means: "The Messiah" and also "The anointed one."
2006-12-11 00:47:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They did not have last names in Jesus's day and place. Christ is the Anglicized (?) version of Messiah.
2006-12-11 02:45:21 · answer #8 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ is not a name, It is a title.
2006-12-11 00:46:48 · answer #9 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the NT Bible, Matthew,16:15-16
'Who do you say I am?'
Simon Peter answered,'You are the Christ,the Son of the living God.'
'Jesus replied,"Blessed are you,Simon son of Jonah,for this was not revealed to you by man,but by my Father in heaven.And I tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my church,and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ."
I think Christ means MESIA.
2006-12-11 01:05:15 · answer #10 · answered by mirna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋