which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Mk 15:33–34 Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? What are we to make of these extraordinary words of Jesus on the cross? For some Christians ...

Was Jesus in fact a common name back when he was alive ... People who knew Jesus would not have called him Christ, which is the translation of a Greek word meaning “anointed one.” ...