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Matthew 1:21

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1:21She will give birth to a son and you will name him17 Jesus,18 because he will save his people from their sins.”

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Matthew 1:21: “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Footnotes

  1. 17 Grk “you will call his name.”
  2. 18 The Greek form of the name Iēsous, which was translated into Latin as Jesus, is the same as the Hebrew Yeshua (Joshua), which means “Yahweh saves” (Yahweh is typically rendered as “Lord” in the OT). It was a fairly common name among Jews in 1st century Palestine, as references to a number of people by this name in the and Josephus indicate.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

NLTNew Living Translation

And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And she will give birth to a son, and you will call his name ‘Jesus,’ because he will save his people from their sins.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.