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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Messias (Title of a leader)
Greek for Messiah, anointed one. It turns up twice, both times in John: Andrew to his brother, and the woman at the well.
Greek for Messiah, anointed one. It turns up twice, both times in John: Andrew to his brother, and the woman at the well.
Messias is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah,” meaning “anointed one,” used only twice in the New Testament: by Andrew telling his brother Simon Peter that he had found the Messiah (John 1:41), and by the Samaritan woman at the well telling Jesus she knew Messiah was coming (John 4:25). John immediately glosses the term for his Greek-speaking readers as “the Christ,” since “Christos” is the Greek equivalent. Both scenes mark the term's first appearance on the lips of ordinary people recognizing Jesus rather than in prophetic or narrative description.
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- John 1:41
- John 4:25
