“It seems logical to begin with ‘Messiah,’ since the Christian church owes its name to the Greek equivalent Christos , the ‘Anointed One.’ The Hebrew word relates to the deliverer figure whom the Jews awaited and who would be God’s agent in the inauguration of a new age for God’s people. Image © Stan Myers from GoodSalt.com Both the Hebrew and the Greek terms are derived from roots meaning ‘to anoint.’ Evidently, by calling Him ‘Christ,’ the New Testament writers regarded Jesus as specially set aside for a particular task. “The title Christos occurs more than 500 times in the NT.
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