YESHUA

What's in a Name?

We've been calling Him Jesus for most of our Christian experience. I didn't realize that Jesus is not His name until He challenged me a couple of years ago about His name. It seems that the English language did not even have a J until around 1600 AD, until then it was I, then He was called Iesus. Iesus is from the Greek word Ihsouz which some claim means son of Zeus. So what is His real name?

When the Angel came to Mary and told her that she was going to have a child and that she was to name him ..?

What did the angel actually say? Mary's native tongue was Aramaic a Hebrew dialect, so most likely the angel spoke in to her in Aramac or Hebrew. The name was Yehshua which mean Yahweh or (Yah) saves in Hebrew. His native tongue was also Aramaic. He went on to say several time by "this name shall you be saved", that is Yehshua. Not to be picky but it seems to me that if Gabriel, announcing His conception called Him Yehshua, and His parents, friends and disciples called Him Yehshua and taught that it was by the name Yehshua that we were saved then we should use it too. By the way His name in Hebrew directly translated into English is Joshua. So how did we get from Yehshua to Jesus?