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Does Jesus have a second name?
Back then, people were identified either as being the son of their father, or by the name of the town where they grew up.
In Luke's genealogy, chapter 3 verse 23 identifies Jesus like this:
Now Jesus ...
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Samaritans, the Jubilee and Jesus
The Samaritan Calendar places the year of entry into the Promised Land in the Spring of 1639 BC (or is it 1638 BC?).
If the above were true then AD 27 would approximate to the 34th Jubilee.
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Does Jesus have a second name?
The "second name" in its modern form is a European development, late Middle Ages (though the Romans had a more complex system).
The quotation of the middle initial along with the main two ...
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(For denominations who accept icons) Who is "Jesus Christ of the old days" icon?
Who is "Jesus Christ of the old days" icon?
This is an icon depicting Jesus with grey hair. Uncommon nowadays, but in days gone by, this imagery would have been a little more commonplace in ...
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(For denominations who accept icons) Who is "Jesus Christ of the old days" icon?
A better translation might, perhaps, be the Ancient of Days if only because this is a very common translation of a phrase from the Bible.
To lift from the Wikipedia article:
I beheld till the thrones ...
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