What was Jesus last name?
“Jesus” was a common name at the time, because “Jesus” is just “Joshua” in a different language. (YehoSHUa in Hebrew, Y’shua in Aramaic, Yeysous in Greek, Yesu in Latin–Jesus in English.) It was so common that you’d have to distinguish one Jesus from another. Inside Nazareth, where He grew up, he would be called “Jesus Josephson” or “the carpenter’s son” or, later, “the carpenter.” Outside of Nazareth they would call him Jesus of Nazareth. They didn’t have “last names” like we have. The closest they came to it would be the Swedish and Slavic practice of calling you the son of (your father’s first name). I live in Eastern Europe and most people just call me Roger Johnson–they don’t even know my last name, or use it except on official or formal occasions.
