Quote Originally Posted by 40oz
Was Jesus the only one that had the name jesus back then?
not remotely. it was an EXTREMELY common name. Jesus and joshua is the same name. the transliteration "jesus" is from the greek which sounds like "E-A-sus". in hebrew, the name would be "ye-shu-A" and means "god saves". it would be as common a name as bob or something today.

oh, and his last name wasn't "christ" rather than last names, they were known as who their father was, i.e. "jesus, son of joseph", or where they came from "jesus of nazareth" which is where he grew up