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The name '''Jesus''' is simply the name "Joshua" translated first into Greek, then English. In Christian discourse, the name '''Jesus''' almost always refers specifically to '''Jesus of Nazareth,''' God's son, who came to earth as a human c 2 AD. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201:18-25;&version=31;</ref> The life of Jesus is recorded in the Bible in the Gospels of [[Matthew]], [[Mark]], [[Luke]], and [[John]]. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and three days later he rose from the dead.
The name '''Jesus''' is simply the name "Joshua" translated first into Greek, then English. In Christian discourse, the name '''Jesus''' almost always refers specifically to '''Jesus of Nazareth,''' God's son, who came to earth as a human c 2 AD. <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201:18-25;&version=31;</ref> The life of Jesus is recorded in the Bible in the Gospels of [[Matthew]], [[Mark]], [[Luke]], and [[John]]. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and three days later he rose from the dead.
The first time John saw Jesus, he said, \"Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!\"
The first time John saw Jesus, he said, "Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!"
<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:29&version=31;</ref>
<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:29&version=31;</ref>
==Other people in the Bible named "Jesus"==
The author of ''Ecclesiastius,'' a book which Catholics include in the Douay Bible, but Protestants place in the Apocrypha as valuable, but not having the authority of Scripture, is known as ''Jesus of Sira.''
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