Why do you say Yeshua instead of Jesus?

Yeshua is His actual Hebrew name, "HaShem saves." "Jesus" is a faithful English rendering of the Latin of the Greek, three layers removed; Yeshua keeps the meaning audible.

Because Yeshua is His actual name, the one His mother and His friends called Him. It is Hebrew, a short form of Yehoshua, and it is built from the word yasha, to save. So the name is really a tiny sentence: God saves. That is exactly the reason the angel gives for it: call His name Yeshua, for He will save His people (Matthew 1:21). That wordplay only works in Hebrew.

Jesus is not wrong. It is a faithful English spelling of the Latin spelling of the Greek spelling of the Hebrew, three steps down the line. Nothing dishonest happened along the way; the meaning just went quiet. Saying Yeshua simply turns the meaning back on.

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