Χριστιανοί, as a sect bound up with a person. Accordingly, the acclamation Χριστός Ἰησοῦς became a double name. Of course this process must have taken years, and the messianic, titular meaning of Christ continued to be present in the church at a later stage as well. Like the formula ‘God has raised (the man) Jesus from the dead’, the phrase ‘the Messiah died’ had a special, unique significance. That the man Jesus died meant little, for many men were crucified in Jewish Palestine at that time;