Introduction

In this paper, the researcher will discus on the topic The Title and Name of Jesus. The
Bible is filled with many references to who Jesus is, His life, His Lordship, and what He came to
do. Here’s just some of those names, titles, and verses from God’s Word. We all know that Jesus
Christ was given many names or Titles from Old Testament and New Testament, each name or
title has a different meaning according to His actions. All the titles of Jesus Christ describe what
he came to do to bring God to man and free man from bondage. Here some names and titles of
Jesus Christ will discuss below.

1. The Son of Man

This title appears seventy times in the Synoptic gospel and about ten times in the gospel
of John. Jesus was also born like another human being, the bible wrote that Jesus was a son of
Joseph and Mary. The body of Jesus Christ was like other men which resulted from human sin
and failure. In human terms, Jesus always uses this word except in Acts 7:56 when people trying
to kill Stephen and he declared that he can see the heaven open and the Son of a man standing on
the right side of God. This word refers to Jesus Christ and also in the four gospels the title Son of
Man refers to Jesus Christ.1
This title no one uses except Jesus, but in Acts when 7:56, Stephen uses this word and it
refers to Jesus Christ, Jesus always used to introduce himself by this title because he love to
introduce human terms to the world and his followers. It makes equality for everyone.

2. The Son of God

this title is not used only to call Jesus, but in the Old Testament time, this title was used in
three different ways. In the Old time, the Son of God means a person who was equal to God; an
Individual in the class 'god'. The word Son is commonly used in the ancient Hebrew language, it
refers to all the people of Israelites as the son of Israel.2
The Son of God is also called to the person with a special commission from God or men
who exercise the privilege of gods judgment by divine appointment. In O. T. The Book of Ex.

1
Maong Lemthur, Christ in A Changing Context: Person and Work of Christ (Dimapur: Heritage Publishing
House, 2013), 4-5.
2
Lemthur, Christ in A Changing Context: Person and Work of Christ…, 5.
21:6; 22:8-9; 28, only God stands for judges. His disputes, Exercising the power of life and
death.
King is also called Son of God in OT time and also we can see in the NT, the book of
Luke chapter 2, says that all the firstborn children should belong to God. So Historically, the
elder’s sons are called the Son of God. This reference comes from the OT.3
In the New Testament, both the expressions Son of God and Child of God occur, but
without a clear distinction of meaning the New Testament usage is based on one or another of the
Old Testament usage of the Son of God. In the Gospel of Luke 20:36 “Nor can they die
anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection”.
This reference to the son of God refers to Jesus who equals to an angel and is the Son of
resurrection.4
In the New Testament time, Jesus was called by the Son of God, Son of God, this name
when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, a voice came from heaven saying this is my Son and I love
him, we can find in the Bible, the Gospel of Mathew 3: 17, this reference to God himself
witnesses that Jesus is the Son of God.

3. Messiah
The title Messiah originated with the Hebrew word and it translates to the English word
“Christ” which means “the Chosen One” or “Anointed One”. During Jesus’s time, the followers
of Jesus believe that Jesus is a divine person who God sends from heaven to save and redeem the
Israel from Romans Emperor. In ancient Israel, various people might be anointed, including the
king, priests, and select prophets. But the idea of the coming Messiah as a part of kingship that
what the Israel people expect but the way Jesus came is a very different way.5

4. Logos or Word
The term Logos come from the Greek word, which means the word, Jesus as the word, in
the Bible, the Gospel of John, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and

3
I. H. Marshal, and Others, New Bible Dictionary: 3rd Edition (Secunderabad: OM Books, 2000), 1122.
4
Marshal, and Others, New Bible Dictionary: 3rd Edition…, 1122.
5
Lemthur, Christ in A Changing Context: Person and Work of Christ…, 9.
the word was God”. The term Logos is used in the universal term. The Christians has believed
that God Shows us through Christ what he likes.6
God sends His word to the prophets in the Old Testament, therefore the word is barely a
distinct entity. However, in the New Testament, when we consider the word as personified in
Jesus Christ, it becomes different from God. 7 Because all the followers of Christ consider Him as
the Son of God.

5. Teacher
According to the four Gospels Jesus was a teacher. Jesus proclaimed and instructed.
Hundreds of times, his contemporaries referred to him as "teacher" or a related term like "rabbi,"
and he embraced Jesus accepted this title (Mark 10:17-18; John 13:13). When Jesus starts his
God Ministry he was 30 years old, he left his home and worked among different people to
become a Teacher. The word teacher comes from the Hebrew word Rabbi. Its means “My great
one”. In the New Testament, the followers of Christ are called Jesus as Rabbi or Teacher.8
He never went to the school and entered a classroom as we know a classroom. He never
had a degree as we understand an educational degree, but the world was His classroom. No
degreed teacher did anything greater than what Jesus Christ did. He ultimate command as given
to us in the Bible (Matthew 28:19 KJV). His final command was a teaching command.

6. Son of David
In early Christian times Judaism used to call Jesus as Son of David, this title frequently
occurs as a title of the Messiah. The gospel of Matthew many time mention that issus as the son
is David, (Matt 9:27, 12:23, 15:22, 20:30)9
The theological point, the title Son of David to Jesus as the royal messiah in line with
David. Because the Jews people believe that a Messiah will come from the Davidic dynasty.
Jesus fulfilled the promise of God given to the Davidic dynasty in his personal and ministry.

6
Margaret Baxter, Jesus Christ: His Life and His Church; New Testament Introduction 1 (Delhi: ISPDCK,
2000), 3.
7
Lemthur, Christ in A Changing Context: Person and Work of Christ…, 8.
8
Alysa Roat, “What is a Messiah” https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/what-is-a-messiah.html
(27 August 2023)
9
Samuel George, Christology (Kolkata: ESPACE, 2019), 15.
 7. The Lamb of God
When Jesus comes to John the Baptize, he said “See, the Lamb of God, Who carried
away the sin of the world”. This reference, the Lamb of God refers to Jesus, 10 John was trying to
tell the Jewish people in a very simple way that Jesus is the only person who can show them a
good way to save from the Romans Emperor.

8. Jesus as New Adam

This title of Jesus Christ especially used by Pauline has been compared with the first
Adam based on the Jewish view of the Old Testament. Adam was the first human person in the
Old Testament, created by a specific act of God from the dust of the ground. Death entered the
earth as a result of Adam's disobedient Sin to God, affecting all Humankind. Life, on the other
hand, comes via the obedience of the second and New Adam, Jesus Christ.
Now when we see in the Old Testament very deeply, then Adam is in one hence the Son
of God (Gen 5:1). In the New Testament, Jesus is the Son of God in a more fundamental sense.
This is an example in Luke's Gospel, where Jesus' supernatural Sonship is announced at his
baptism (Luke 3:22) and tested in the wilderness (Luke 4:1-13). The genealogy, which tells
Christ's Adamic Sonship, connects the baptism and temptation accounts (Luke 3:38).
In the NT Paul introduces Jesus as New Adam in two passages (Rom 5:12, 1 Cor 15:22,
45-49) in these passages Paul compared with the OT Adam. Through New Adam, a new
beginning was made for all humankind. Christ becomes a new way to set free all the people.
therefore Christ became the new head for all man's like Adam was in Old Testament.11
9. Redeemer
When Nicodemus offered no further response, Jesus lovingly and graciously explained to
him the new birth in all its simplicity. In the bible, Jesus introduced the details of the way of
salvation.12

10
P. I. Jacob, The Life of Jesus Christ: The Living Savior of The World (Mumbai: GLS Publishing, 2019),
44.
11
Lemthur, Christ in A Changing Context: Person and Work of Christ…, 8-9.
12
John F. MacArthur Jr. The Gospel According to Jesus: Revised and Expanded Edition (Grands Rapids:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1994), 50-51.
Conclusion
Through this paper, the researcher brought many names and titles of Jesus Christ. Here
all the names and titles are given to Jesus from the Bible references and some are from a
historical view and personal views.

Bibliography
Baxter, Margaret., Jesus Christ: His Life and His Church; New Testament Introduction 1. Delhi: ISPDCK, 2000.
George, Samuel., Christology. Kolkata: ESPACE, 2019.
Jacob, P. I., The Life of Jesus Christ: The Living Savior of The World. Mumbai: GLS Publishing, 2019.
Lemthur, Maong., Christ in A Changing Context: Person and Work of Christ. Dimapur: Heritage Publishing House,
2013.
MacArthur Jr. John F., The Gospel According to Jesus: Revised and Expanded Edition. Grand’s Rapids: Zondervan
Publishing House, 1994.

Dictionary
Marshal, I. H. and Other, New Bible Dictionary: 3rd Edition. Secunderabad: OM Books, 2000.

Webliography
Roat, Alysa., “What is a Messiah” https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/what-is-a-messiah.html (27
August 2023)