JESUS — the Greek form of the Hebrew Yeshua (Yehoshua, 'Joshua'), which means 'YHWH is salvation' or 'YHWH saves'. ⚠ Matthew 1:21 makes the etymology the whole point: 'you shall call his name Jesus, for he will SAVE (sōsei) his people from their sins' — the name is a compressed sermon, and what it saves from is named too, not Rome or exile but sin. It is the commonest of names — the same name as Moses' successor Joshua who led Israel into the land, and as several other men in the New Testament (Colossians 4:11, 'Jesus called Justus'; and the Barabbas of some Matthew manuscripts is 'Jesus Barabbas') — which is why 'of Nazareth' or 'Christ' is so often added to fix which Jesus is meant. The old conqueror's name is given to one who conquers not territory but sin. → first discussed at Matt 1:21