In Genesis 3:15, after Adam and Eve had listened to the devil, God made this prophecy about the Messiah and his role in righting the wrong: (NIV) "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
The Hebrew translation is Yeshua, the Aramaic translation is Jesus. You seem to be interested in the Greek translation. Well, Jesus our Messiah's name, is mentioned in Matthew 1. Matthew is the first book of the New Testament, however our Messiah is also mentioned many times in the Old Testament, though not by name.
The word "Messiah" is in the King James Version of the Bible 2 times. It is in 2 verses.
"Christ" is first mentioned in the first verse of the New Testament:Matthew 1:1 - The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: [NKJV]However, it should be remembered that the title "Christ" is the Greek form of the Hebrew word "Messiah," which is first mentioned in Daniel 9:25 in the Old Testament.
The first person to recognize Jesus as the Messiah was John the Baptist.
Genesis 3:15 This is where God says that the serpent (aka Satan) would be crushed by the heel of him who would be the serpent's enemy (Jesus the Messiah).
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The first person that Jesus told he was the Messiah was a woman from Samaria, known as the Samaritan woman or the woman at the well.
Do you think Handel's Messiah will continue to be as popular in the twenty-first century as it was in the twentieth? Explain your answer.
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