The Person of Jesus

Throughout the Gospel Jesus is known and called many different titles.  The titles which have been selected from the Gospel are –

  • Jesus and Saviour
  • Christ, Messiah (and other variations)
  • Son of God
  • Son of Man

These all are gradually unfolding to us, the true identity and meaning of Jesus’ titles.

Jesus

Jesus is a Jewish name and is fairly common. It was his own personal name so it is special to us.  The meaning of Jesus is ‘God is salvation’.  Although Jesus is seen as one who saves he is never called ‘Saviour’.  He is only called Jesus three times during Marks Gospel: Mk1:24 “What do you want with us Jesus of Nazareth?”, Mk5:7 “Jesus son of most high God”, Mk10:47 “Jesus! Son of David! Take pity on me!”.  .  Even though Jesus’ name appears 81 times in Marks Gospel.  Mark identifies Jesus as ‘Jesus of Nazareth’.

Jesus was very important to his first followers because he left his job as a carpenter to travel. When travelling he was a preacher: Mk1:38 “ We must go to the other villages round here.  I have to preach in them also, because that is why I came.”, a teacher: Mk1:21 “ Jesus went to the synagogue and began to teach.”, a healer and exorcist: Mk1:34 “Jesus healed many who were sick with all kinds of diseases and drove out many demons.”  Although Jesus was sent to help people and free them from sin, Jesus also wanted time alone and time to be with his disciples.  He was called Jesus by Mark and his followers they where referring to him as a human being like them.

For Jesus’ followers today he is still extremely important because he showed many human emotions meaning that he is an ordinary human, who was born and will die.  The emotions he experienced were love, anger, anxiety, sorrow and distress therefore he understands humans.  Jesus showed us what it was like to live human life according to the way God wanted it to be.  Christians today are encouraged to follow the example that Jesus made for us, he showed us we could be dedicated to God like him and never turn our back on the lord.

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We use saviour quite a lot now as we believe it represents what God has done for us in Christ.  When dying Jesus rose to save us that is why he is known as a saviour which is very important to us.  Some people believe that Jesus is still active today in the world working and helping in people.  

Christ, Messiah (and other variations)

Christ is a Greek word and messiah is Hebrew they both mean the same thing in English and that is ‘Anointed one’. Anointing is what Christians do, it is a symbol to show ...

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