Yeshua is the original Hebrew proper name for Jesus of Nazareth, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 A.D. In other words, Yeshua was the name His family would call Him. Since most scholars hold that Jesus was an Aramaic-speaking Jew living in Galilee around it is highly improbable that he had a Greek personal name.

In Hebrew Yeshua means both “Salvation,” and the concatenated form of Yahoshua, the “LORD who is Salvation.”  “He will save”, Is.43:3

The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English, except as it is known as His name in English. (Therefore, we cannot deny the name Jesus, since this name commonly identifies the Messiah to English speaking people.)  

The English form Jesus is derived from the New Testament Greek name Ihsouß, pronounced “Yesous.” According to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the bible, Yesous (Strong’s #2424) is “of Hebrew origin” and can be traced back to Joshua’s Hebrew name, Yehoshua (#3091, [wvwhy).

But how do we get the Greek Yesous from the Hebrew Yehoshua?

The name Joshua sometimes appears in its shortened form, Yeshua ([wvy) in Neh. 8:17 it is apparent even in English: “Jeshua the son of Nun.” (The letter J was pronounced like a Y in Old English.) Strong does not tell the reader that the Greek Yesous is actually transliterated from this shortened Hebrew form, Yeshua, and not directly from the longer form Yehoshua.

The process from “Yehoshua” to “Jesus” looks like this:

Hebrew Yehoshua à Hebrew Yeshua
Hebrew Yeshua à Greek Yesous
Greek Yesous à English Jesus

There is no “sh” sound in Greek, which accounts for the middle “s” sound in Yesous. The “s” at the end of the Greek name is a grammatical necessity, to make the word declinable.

In Neh. 8:17, Joshua’s name is 100% identical to the name which today’s Messianic Jews use for the Messiah, Yeshua ([wvy). Strong’s confirms this pronunciation, and tells us that there were ten Israelites in the Bible who bore this name (#3442). Therefore the shortening of Yehoshua to Yeshua predates the Christian era by at least 500 years. The form Yeshua existed for several hundred years before the Messiah was even born. Even in the pre-Christian Septuagint, we see the Greek form IHSOUS (Yesous) in the title of the Book of Joshua. (This is also proof that Yesous has no connection to the pagan god Zeus.)
 
YESHUA THE SAVIOR

Many people of the world believe Yeshua to be the promised Lamb of God, who was chosen to be sacrificed for all mankind’s sin. The Bible declares that mankind must have a blood sacrifice to substitute punishment for their sins by placing them on the sacrifice, figuratively speaking. The sacrifice has to be blameless, else the punishment could not be substituted, since the thing sacrificed would be dying for its own sins. Clean and spotless animals were once sacrificed as a temporal measure until a fully qualified sacrifice could be supplied at the proper time. Followers of Yeshua believe He was that perfect sacrifice. He is a man, who could be properly substituted for mankind, yet God in the flesh, for only God is sinless. Only God Himself is a pure enough sacrifice to satisfy His holy justice, for all men have sinned.
Yeshua came speaking the Torah Word of God with absolute authority. He made no mistake in regards to all God’s commands. Only God Himself could act this way. For this reason people accept Yeshua as God in the flesh. Not that God is consigned or limited to flesh, but that He can manifest Himself in whatever form He pleases to fulfill His task. Yeshua of Nazareth was and is the form of flesh that God was manifest in. In this form, Yeshua is the Son of God and the Son of Man.
 
 
YESHUA THE MESSIAH
 
Messiah in Hebrew is “maschiah” and in Greek: Christ. Messiah is not a name but a title and means “anointed one”.
 
Messianic Psalms Ps.2:1-12   67:1-7  68:1-35  69:1-36  72:1-20  96:1-13  98:1-9  110:1-7
 
Prophecies concerning the Messiah:  Dan. 9:25,26  Acts. 3:18-20
 
Simeon’s testimony to the Messiah: Jn.1:41,45
 
Peter’s confession of the Messiah: Mt.16:15,16  Mk:8:29  Lk. 9:20  Jn. 6:69
 
Jesus was proclaimed as Messiah by the apostles: Act. 9:22  13:27  17:2,3  26:6,7,22,23  28:23  Ro.1:1-3  1 Co. 15:3  1P.1:10,11  2P. 1:16-18  1 Jn. 5:6-9
 
Jesus’ own testimony to his messiahship (Mt. 11:3-6  26:63,64  Lk. 24:27  Jn.4:25,26,29,42  5:33,36,37,39,46  6:27  8:14,17-18,25,28,56  13:19
 
Jesus was called David’s son:  Mt.22:42-45  Mk.12:35-37  Lk.20:41-44
 
Jesus is the anointed of God : Ps.2:2  Acts. 4:26,27