English form of Ιησους (Iesous), which was the Greek form of

the Aramaic name יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshu’a). Yeshu’a is itself a contracted form of Yehoshu’a

(see JOSHUA). Yeshua ben Yoseph, better known as Jesus Christ,

was the central figure of the New Testament and the source of the Christian religion.

The four gospels state that he was the son of God and

the Virgin Mary who fulfilled the Old Testamentprophecies

of the Messiah. He preached for three years before being crucified in Jerusalem.

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