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Hakuana muislam yeyote anayejua historia ya Yesu hata Allah hajui.
Quran ina historia ya mtuanayeitwa issah aliyezaliwa chini ya mtende.
What's in a Name?
The name Jesus is actually a 16th century creation.
"Jesus" has its origins in יהושוע (Yehoshua or Joshua) in which the first part "yeho" refers to God.
The name means "YHWH helps".
But it was a name to be used with care and to prevent accidental voicing of the name of God, Yehoshua got truncated to ישוע (Y'shua), or, in the Galilee, to Yeshu.
Transliterated into Greek, Yeshu became Ἰησοῦς (Iesous), and from that, the Latin Iesus.
A late development was the letter J which was then substituted for the initial capital I rendering Iesus into Jesus.