Question:
Dr. Hank Why dont any of the characters in the Bible seem to have last names? Did Jesus have a last name? What does Christ mean?
Answer:
They had a first name and would be addressed as “James the son of Zebedee”. Christ comes from the Greek word ‘Christos’ and means Messiah, the Annointed One, the promised Savior that would come. Even today we have some of that. For example, the name Johnson means the son of John.