What is up with the different spellings of Jesus?

[LifeUncommon]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Yes if a language has the Hebrew sounds it is preferable to use them. English does. Thats why I use "Yeshua".

Are you saying he was called Jesus while he was here?

I'm saying he was called something that sounded similarly to Jesus, yes.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by LifeUncommon

I'm saying he was called something that sounded similarly to Jesus, yes.

Yeshua Hebrew
Iesous Greek
Iesus Latin
Jesus English

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Yeshua Hebrew
Iesous Greek
Iesus Latin
Jesus English

I might add that the "s" at the end of Iesous is added by Greek grammer rules. The name in Greek would be Iesou pronounced as Yay soo.

I have read that when Tyndale translated his original English from Greek version he dropped the "s" as did the next several early English versions.

They were using Yesu pronounced as Yay soo.

The name Jesus was not known in those days.