To the very ordinary Jewish name of this man, Joshua/Yeshua (which has also ended up in a Greek form, ‘Jesus’), his followers added ‘Christos’ as a second name, after he had been executed on a cross.2 It is notable that they felt it necessary to make this Greek translation of a Hebrew word, ‘Messiah’, or ‘Anointed One’, when they sought to describe the special, foreordained character of their Joshua.
