TO THE POOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY AND LANGUAGEJESUS VISITING BRITAIN IS NONSENSE

Whilst I agree with "Insite" about the corrupting influence of Rome upon the Church founded by Jesus Christ, which was a Jewish Church, there are several things in his post which need addressing.

Jesus was a Jew and this fact should never be forgotten. He lived on the ancestral soil of Palestine, never once setting his foot outside this region. There is no biblical or other evidence to suggest Jesus visited Britain or any other place outside of Palestine. All this speculation about Jesus traveling to England is as ridiculous as the Mormon belief that Israelites migrated to North America.

To suggest that Jesus visited England because travel was easy within the Roman Empire is an erroneous notion. Jesus was crucified around the year AD30 and the Romans did not occupy any part of Britain until AD43.

The origin of the name Jesus is from the Hebrew Yeshua which means salvation. The New Testament was written in Greek not Hebrew and therefore certain adjustments had to be made because Greek has no “Y” sound or “SH” sound. The “I” sound and “S” sound are substituted for these. Thus in Greek Yeshua becomes (Ieisous). As the New Testament was translated into Latin and later into English the “I” sound became a “J” and hence you have the name Jesus which is closer to the Greek rather than the Hebrew rendering of the name. The same applies as to how you pronounce the capital city of Israel. In Hebrew it is pronounced Yerushalayim. In Greek it is pronounced Ierousalem and in English it becomes Jerusalem.

The origin of the word Christ is from the Greek Christos which is a Greek word for the Hebrew term Messiah. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Hindu god Krishna.

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