There was no letter ‘J’ in the alphabets of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek or Roman. Latin (Roman) was the first to add a ‘J’ to their alphabet (in 1524). There is no Hebrew or Aramaic source from Jesus’ day. The compete Bible was given to us in first century Greek.

The only record we have of Jesus’ first century spoken name is in our ancient Greek manuscripts. The Greek name for Jesus in my Greek Bible is Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous in Classical Latin), pronounced as Yeh-soos or Ee-ay-soos. Jesus’ Hebrew name Yeshua has 3 syllables. The pronunciations of His Greek and Latin name have two or three syllables: “Yeh-soos” or “Ee-ay-soos”. The Geeks had no letter for the sh sound so they just used the letter s. The accented i with the Greek letter η (Ἰη) was used to represent the Yeh sound from the Hebrew. Neither Hebrew, Greek nor the ancient Roman alphabet had a letter J yet. When the letter J was finally invented in latin (several hundred years ago) it represented the y sound. The Latin alphabet was first to acquire a J, but that J represented the y sound. Our English name for Jesus came from the Greek name for Jesus. Our English name for His Hebrew name is Joshua. King James uses the name Joshua 198 times from Exodus to Zechariah. King James uses the name Jesus 962 times from Matthew 1:1 through the Revelation of Jesus the Messiah. In Hebrews 4:8 KJV calls Hebrew Joshua by the same Greek name as Jesus. Indicating once again that the fulfillment took place in a Greek speaking world.

Hebrews 4:8

KJV ⁸ For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

So, did Jesus of Nazareth answer to the Greek name Yeh-soos (Ἰησοῦς) or the Hebrew name Ye-shu-a (יְהוֹשׁוּעַ) or the Roman name Ee-ay-soos (Iēsous)? Some people say Jesus mainly spoke Aramaic. The Hebrew name Yeshua is Isho in Aramaic. Nobody I know calls Him that. But people I don’t know who speak Neo-Aramaic/Syriac do pronounce His name Isho (as E-Show). It’s a commonly used name among Neo-Aramaic/Syriac speaking Christians today.

Jesus most often called Himself “the son of humanity” as recorded in my Greek Bible. Son of humanity in Hebrew would be son of Adam. Adam and humanity became two different words in Greek. My Bible has Jesus calling Himself the son of anthropos in Greek. Jesus’ (Yeshua’s or Joshua’s) mission was contained in His Hebrew derived name. Joshua (יְהוֹשׁוּעַ ye.ho.shu.a) means YHWH is salvation or “I Am” is salvation.

Joshua typically took the people into the promised land because the law man could not do it. Jesus under law did not do it either. Jesus fulfilled the law and moved Himself to a new covenant creation, so all His chosen people would follow the new covenant man on earth and into heaven. Heaven opened before the J sound was invented. Under law, Jesus was listed as son of Adam. Original Adam was being raised by God’s presence until he fell under the law of the garden. Jesus is the only begotten by the Holy Spirit. He grew up under law without a fall. Jesus grew up and personally received God’s presence under law. He then gifted God’s presence to new covenant sons no longer under law.

Luke 3:21-38 – The word ‘son’ is only used twice in this genealogy. Jesus matured under the law of Joseph.

CLV ²¹ Now it occurred, as all the people are baptized, at Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven is opened, ²² and the holy spirit descends on Him, to bodily perception as if a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, “Thou art My Son, the Beloved; in Thee I delight.” ²³ And He, Jesus, when beginning, was about thirty years old, being a son (as to the law) of Joseph, of Eli, of Matthat, of Levi, ²⁴ of Melchi, of Jannai, of Joseph, ²⁵ of Mattathias, of Amos, of Nahum, of Esli, of Naggai, ²⁶ of Maath, of Mattithiah, of Shemei, of Josech, of Joda, ²⁷ of Joanna, of Rhesa, of Zerubbabel, of Shalthiel, of Neri, ²⁸ of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmadam, of Er, ²⁹ of Jesus, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of Matthat, of Levi, ³⁰ of Simeon, of Judah, of Joseph, of Jonam, of Eliakim, ³¹ of Melea, of Menna, of Mattathah, of Nathan, of David, ³² of Jesse, of Obed, of Boaz, of Salmon, of Nahson, ³³ of Amminadab, of Admein, of Arni, of Hezron, of Pharez, of Judah, ³⁴ of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Tera, of Nahor, ³⁵ of Serug, of Reu, of Peleg, of Eber, of Shelah, ³⁶ of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Shem, of Noah, of Lamech, ³⁷ of Methuselah, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, of Cainan, ³⁸ of Enosh, of Seth, of Adam, of God.”

Regardless of His language, did the Son of God take His humanity into the eternal Promised Land at His ascension? Heaven opened for old covenant Jesus at His baptism and the Holy Spirit remained. Heaven opened for Stephen’s Jewish humanity at his Jewish martyrdom because Jesus opened it. Jesus was first to go to heaven from the new covenant. Did the real Jesus stand up for new covenant humanity in typical Jerusalem yet? Did the faithful Jewish re-generation follow His lead into the promised land, after 40 years of being regenerated?

In which languages are people in Israel today allowed to say the name of God and the name of His Son? Does it even matter? Jesus called Himself “I Am” which if spoken in Hebrew is YHWH. Yet the most ancient records we have of Jesus’ speaking “I Am” is in Greek, not in Hebrew or Aramaic or Roman.

Why was Jesus named after Joshua and not Jacob or David or Adam or Moses or Abraham? Matthew tells us of a Messiah who will be called “Ee-ay-soos (Ἰησοῦς in Greek), for He will save His people from their sins” and He will also be called “Immanuel, which means God with us.” Yehsoos/Immanuel stands in the presence of his Hebrew disciples and says to them “I am with you always, even to the end of the age”. Jesus by His presence promised to take His chosen Jews to the end of their age (40-year trek or 1000-year age) alive (with or without a J sound). Yehsoos was still with them throughout their new covenant transition even while He was preparing a new heaven for them. He did it all before the letter j existed in anyone’s alphabet.

Matthew 8:19-20

YLT ¹⁹ and a certain scribe having come, said to him, `Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;’ <sup>20</sup> and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man [humanity] hath not where he may lay the head.’

Jesus hadn’t made the way for His humanity to follow Him to heaven yet. He had no place to rest his head as the son of humanity en route. Even the animals found more rest than the son of humanity did in His old creation. Jesus came to rest His head as the firstborn son in the new covenant. As His time approached, He was grieved until that part of His mission was accomplished. Jesus came to give His people rest in His reborn humanity. Nobody today can find true rest anywhere, except in the new covenant. It goes without saying that the we pronounce His name in any language doesn’t threaten our place in the new covenant. It doesn’t grieve the Holy Spirit either. When pronunciation is what matters most then we have taken His name in vain. God isn’t grieved over transliterations of His name. He wants His name represented in every language.

In Matthew 8:19, the scribe referred to himself as “I” as most of us do. Jesus most often referred to Himself by His mission for others. He was given a human body in Mary as the only begotten son of humanity. On the rare occasions when Jesus did refer to Himself as “I”, He didn’t hold back. “I Am” refers to the Glory He had with God before He took on His human mission. Jesus didn’t continuously say “I” because He wasn’t at all insecure. “I Am” refers to His past and future glory with God. He returned to His Father as the firstborn of His new covenant humanity. Jesus Himself wasn’t created. He humbled Himself and left heaven in order to take the place of earthly Adam on the cross. He was given a human old covenant body in order to redeem His people from the old firstborn. He is the new firstborn human of the heavenly (new creation) Jerusalem.

Mark 14:60-62

YLT ⁶⁰ And the chief priest, having risen up in the midst, questioned Jesus, saying, `Thou dost not answer anything! what do these testify against thee?’ <sup>61</sup> and he was keeping silent, and did not answer anything. Again the chief priest was questioning him, and saith to him, `Art thou the Christ—the Son of the Blessed?’ ⁶² and Jesus said, `I am; and ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming with the clouds, of the heaven.’

God told Moses to say, I Am has sent me to you. YHWH in Hebrew means I Am. God said to Moses, “I Am who I Am … say to the Israelites: ‘I Am has sent me to you.’ Even if Jesus was speaking Greek they apparently got the meaning. They took up stones to kill Him because they thought it was the lawful thing to do, because they didn’t believe Yeshua was equal to Yahweh. Today, in the place where old covenant Jerusalem used to exist, people are still pretending to be God’s true people, by their own very nebulous and made-up definitions. They have even made laws in Jerusalem today forbidding to speak the name of God or His Son in English. God sent His only begotten Son in His true name. Jesus did not take God’s name in vain. Taking God’s name in vain has nothing to do with pronunciation or even which language it’s spoken in. The people in Jerusalem today are missing the whole point. Behaving like a true human is what honors the name YHWY and His only begotten Son Yeshua, no matter how or if we ever say their names out loud. The name of Yahweh was perfectly fleshed out by His Son Yeshua, regardless of the language He was speaking.

John 8:58-59

YLT ⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham’s coming—I am;’ ⁵⁹ they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

Was Jesus (Joshua) a common boy’s name when He was born in Israel? Is it still a common name in Jerusalem today? The Proper Name Of The One True God is I Am or יהוה in Hebrew. We have no ancient record of Jesus calling Himself “I AM” in Hebrew, only in Greek. In a Greek-speaking world, as the son of anthropos He took both Adam’s fall and humanity’s fall. He wasn’t on the cross to save the nation by reviving the old man or the old Hebrew language. People today want to revive the old man by reviving his language.

The Son of anthropos was on the cross to put the old covenant man to death in Himself. He didn’t die to kill humanity. He died as Adamic humanity. He saved His chosen people by giving them a new firstborn with a new name in any language. Jesus old covenant death was as eschaton Adam. He died in the place of the old fallen man. He Himself didn’t fall in the old or the new. Nevertheless, last Adam died and was resurrected as the first new covenant man without genealogy, after He put the eschaton Adam to death on the cross. Adam was a firstborn type of the one about to be. Jesus fulfilled the type even as eschaton Adam but nobody could truly join Him there. Nobody will ever be with Jesus in the old covenant.

In English we say Jesus. So why don’t we call Him by our English version of His Hebrew name – Joshua? Because we got His name from our Greek record of His life in and around Jerusalem. We call Him by our English version of His Greek version of His Hebrew name. So then why do we render the same Greek name as Joshua in Hebrews? Jesus was in the old covenant too. If it is so essential to say their Hebrew names then why did the Jews give us their complete Greek Bible. Furthermore, why don’t they call themselves Yews instead of Jews?

There is only one Yewish body of Christ and they were made one in a Greek speaking world that didn’t have a J. There are not two gospels contained in two different Bibles: the first gospel came for the Gentiles in Greek and the second one will come to the Yews in Hebrew, after they are resurrected back into the old covenant first temple period. They were still speaking Hebrew then. The majority of Yews weren’t speaking Hebrew when they got their promised new covenant.

Either way there was never a j. Even the word Gentiles with its modern j sound wasn’t invented till 1400. I like the word Gentiles, but a more concordant translation from the Greek would be nations or ethnics. An even more obvious Latin influenced transliteration is given to us when referring to Jesus’ half brother as James rather than Jacob. Sounds like a Gentile rendition of a Yewish text. The King James Version was definitely influenced by the existing Latin and English Bible versions and by King James and the Queen. He put his own name on the cover. He artificially made the Jewish transition from the old to the new covenant less obvious.

The first century faithful-to-the-Word Jews properly underwent their transition of covenants in a Greek-speaking world. The unfaithful Jews separated themselves and remained in the old covenant unto second death, not unto another resurrection. Jesus came to divide His people between believes and unbelievers. He didn’t promise the unbelievers a new covenant or another old covenant resurrection. He promised life to the age to the Jewish believers and destruction at the fulfillment of the age to the Jewish unbelievers.

iakOb (Yacob) is rendered Jacob in Luke 3:34

iakObon (Yacobon) is rendered James in Luke 6:14

iakObos (Yacobus) is rendered James in James 1:1

iEsous (Yesus) is rendered Jesus in Luke 3:23

iEsou (Yesu) is rendered Joshua in Acts 7:45

iEsous (Yesus) is rendered Joshua in Hebrews 4:8

After the cross, new false religions were spun-off by the pre-Septuagint pre-Jesus throwbacks. The new religions went back in time and tried to reclaim the original Hebrew language, which was never a stagnate language, so at what time in it’s development exactly do they try to reclaim it. The multitude of newly invented religions that all call themselves Jews are very incoherent and very incomplete in both practice and preaching. They don’t even claim to be speaking Hebrew. They say they are speaking Aramaic. Jesus came to fulfill and remove the Jewish types and He succeeded. He actually told the Jews that He came to give them rest, not retroactively instantiate them into an insecure and indefinite futurity. That’s a hard yoke to bear. And it is self-imposed. The wrath of God isn’t forever hanging over their neo-Jewish heads waiting for them to outdo the first century Jews in a future covenant rebellion so He can covenantally destroy them for a third time while giving them their new covenant for the second time.

The great commission went out from the Jews by The One True Jew who commissioned His fellow Jews with the good news. Today’s great ‘Jewish’ commission is to return themselves to the old covenant land of types and await the wrath of destruction again for failing to keep the law again. Their self destructive mission is a psychotic “I, I, I” that doesn’t promote the true humanity of The Great I AM. Jesus came to flesh out true humanity for humanity’s sake, not for a religious ego. Jesus didn’t claim a genetic superiority, forever in the flesh. All His progeny are in His Holy Spirit birthed new covenant body. All God’s chosen people are forever defined by His presence.

Jesus transitioned Himself to the new covenant not in the flesh in order to save His people from their flesh mode, not to destroy them or put them on an indefinite hold in Hades. Jesus opened the gates of Hades for His chosen church and then opened heaven for His chosen people, as pictured by Stephen’s death just outside the gates of Jerusalem. Stephen left old Jerusalem behind and entered the New Jerusalem, as prepared by the Jewish Messiah. Actually Stephen was the first martyr under the alter waiting for the full number of new covenant Jews to be martyred. Only after that was full entrance granted into heaven. Jesus stood and gave Stephen rest even in His physical death as administered by his own brethren in the flesh. Stephen was thrown out of typical Jerusalem and was murdered into heaven. Stephen is now in the eternal promised land by way of following Joshua.

Hebrews 4:8 – written to the Hebrews in their 40-year re-generation being fulfilled.

KJV ⁸ For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

Hebrews 4:8

YLT ⁸ for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

Hebrews 4:8

ECB ⁸ For if Yah Shua ^* had shabbathized them, than he had not ever after have spoken about another day. ^{*Yah Shua, successor to Mosheh}

James 1:1

ECB ¹
SALUTATION
Yaaqovos [Jacob], a servant of Elohim and of Adonay Yah Shua Messiah: To the twelve scions of the diaspora: Cheers.

Peter in Puerto Rico is Pedro, Pierre in France, Petros in Greece and Pekka in Finland. Jesus is Jesus or Joshua or Yeshua in Israel today. You are not allowed to say the English version of Jesus’ name in Jerusalem today nor are you allowed to say the Hebrew version of His Father’s name.

Jews traditionally stopped pronouncing God’s name before Jesus arrived. They don’t say what God told Moses to say, instead they refer to God as HaShem, “the Name”. In prayer, the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) is substituted with the word Adonai, meaning “My Lord”. Down deep the Jews knew they had taken His name in vain for a thousand years by the time Jesus properly took on God’s name in Jerusalem. Refusing to say YHWH out loud was a typical cover tactic. When Jesus said, “I Am”, they were being ‘spiritual’ by murdering Him. In their projection of their own sins, they were claiming to be ‘protecting’ God’s name. They tried to transfer their guilt to Stephen, but Jesus opened heaven and stood up for him. Like Able, Stephen’s sacrifice was accepted. It was better than Able’s because Stephen cried out from under the alter rather than the old covenant land. In Jesus the Jewish martyrs ascended when they died. In Adam they stayed under the earth.

יהוה
Jehovah = “the existing One”
1. the proper name of the one true God
  a. unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of 0136

There is no J in Greek. Greek has no symbol that represents J nor does it have a sound that is equivalent to our J sound. The letter J was added on to the Latin [Roman] alphabet in the Middle Ages to distinguish it from the consonant I. Excerpted From: Homework.Study.com

We have recently realized that neither the Hebrews nor the Greeks had a J sound, so today we say Yahweh instead of Jehovah. We’ve recently changed both the consonants and the vowels in God’s name. I’m pretty sure we still don’t pronounce it just right, when we do say it out loud. Did Jesus say His Father’s Hebrew name? Like most of us, Jesus didn’t call His Father by His name. Jesus called Him God, Father or Abba Father. Today the religious people who call themselves ‘Jews’ won’t say the Father’s name or the Son’s name: Yahweh or Yeshua (did you just say them in your head?). The Jews even stopped writing the name of God before Jesus arrived and said, “I Am” in Greek.

Genesis 4:26 – Greek Septuagint – Kurios

Thomson ²⁶ And Seth had a son; and he called his name Enos. He hoped that he would invoke the name of the Lord God.

Genesis 4:26 – Hebrew – YHWH

ECB ²⁶ And Sheth, he also births a son; and he calls his name Enos: then begins the calling on the name of Yah Veh.

Genesis 4:26 – KJV English replaced the name YHWH with a ‘more respectable’ or ‘safer’ LORD over 6000 times

KJV ²⁶ And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

Unlike Seth, the pre-Christ Jews lost all hope of properly invoking God’s name. Don’t even think about it. They completely removed YHWH from their first century interpretation of scripture to prevent a mispronunciation in your head. Even a proper pronunciation from an imperfectly behaving vessel would constitute a vanity. As far as we know, Yeshua Himself followed suit and never said the name God told Moses to say to the people. Until He did. We have Him saying, “I Am” in Greek: ἐγώ εἰμί – ego i-mee’

Genesis 2:4

Thomson ⁴ This is the genealogy of heaven and earth. When they were made, on the day when the Lord God had made the heaven and the earth,

Genesis 2:4

ECB ⁴ These are the generations of creating the heavens and of the earth in the day Yah Veh Elohim worked the earth and the heavens;

Genesis 2:4

KJV ⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Who do we address when we pray? Do we even know what to say when we pray? The Holy Spirit knows. If you don’t have the Spirit you are not His. Beyond the essential of being His, mistreatment of people is what Yahweh complains to us about, not mispronunciations. As far as I know, He never gets mad about mispronouncing His name or His Son’s name.

Matthew 23:24 Amplified Bible (AMP)You [spiritually] blind guides, who strain out a gnat [consuming yourselves with miniscule matters] and swallow a camel [ignoring and violating God’s precepts]!

Psalms 94

YLT ¹ God of vengeance—Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth. ² Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompense on the proud. ³ Till when do the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult? ⁴ They utter—they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves. ⁵ Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict. ⁶ Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder. ⁷ And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.’ ⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely? ⁹ He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see? ¹⁰ He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge is Jehovah. ¹¹ He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Jesus took His people to the promised land and gave them rest.

Psalms 95

CLV ¹ Come, let us be jubilant before Yahweh; Let us raise a joyful shout before the Rock of our salvation.” ² Let us go before His presence with acclamation; In melodies may we raise a joyful shout before Him. ³ For Yahweh is the great El, And the great King over all the elohim, ⁴ In Whose hand are the far depths of the earth, And the pinnacles of the mountains are His;” ⁵ Whose is the sea, for He Himself has made it, And the dry land that His hands have formed.” ⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before Yahweh, our Maker.” ⁷ For He is our Elohim, And we are the people of His pasture And the flock of His hand. Today, if His voice you should hear, ⁸ You must not be stiffening your heart as in the contention, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, ⁹ Where your fathers probed Me and tested Me, Though they had seen My deeds.” ¹⁰ Forty years I was disgusted with this generation, And I said, They are a people straying in heart, And they give no thought to My ways.” ¹¹ As I swear in My anger, They assuredly shall not enter into My resting place!” [Reproof for taking God’s name in vain didn’t even mention pronunciation]

Both typically and atypically, only those in the 40-year regeneration entered God’s rest. You must be born again to go to heaven when you die, mispronunciations aside. God’s kingdom is not confined by the typical kingdom languages. Pentecost reversed the curse of Babel for believing Jews only. Non-believers remained confused in their old covenant, until they were born again or the old covenant ended. There are no non-believers left in the old covenant today. All God’s chosen people transitioned into His new covenant kingdom. The new covenant Jerusalem has impossibly high walls. The 12 tribes in diaspora opened the gates in any language before the typical walls were breeched by all the languages. Jesus is the pass Word to enter Jerusalem in any language.

Daniel 7:13-14

CLV ¹³ Perceiving am I in the visions of the night, and behold, on the clouds of the heavens, One as a son of a mortal is arriving: Unto the Transferrer of Days He reaches, and they bring Him near before Him;” ¹⁴ to Him is granted jurisdiction and esteem and a kingdom, and all the peoples and leagues and language-groups shall serve Him; His jurisdiction, as an eonian jurisdiction, will not pass away, and His kingdom shall not be confined.”

First 30 of 6507 Hebrew occurrences of (H3068 יהוה) YHWH

Genesis 2:4	that the LORD
Genesis 2:5	the LORD
Genesis 2:7	And the LORD
Genesis 2:8	And the LORD
Genesis 2:9	the LORD
Genesis 2:15	And the LORD
Genesis 2:16	And the LORD
Genesis 2:18	And the LORD
Genesis 2:19	the LORD
Genesis 2:21	And the LORD
Genesis 2:22	which the LORD
Genesis 3:1	which the LORD
Genesis 3:8	of the LORD
Genesis 3:8	of the LORD
Genesis 3:9	And the LORD
Genesis 3:13	And the LORD
Genesis 3:14	And the LORD
Genesis 3:21	the LORD
Genesis 3:22	And the LORD
Genesis 3:23	Therefore the LORD
Genesis 4:1	the LORD.
Genesis 4:3	to the LORD.
Genesis 4:4	And the LORD
Genesis 4:6	And the LORD
Genesis 4:9	And the LORD
Genesis 4:13	to the LORD,
Genesis 4:15	And the LORD
Genesis 4:15	And the LORD
Genesis 4:16	of the LORD,
Genesis 4:26	of the LORD.