Jesuses

English

Proper noun

Jesuses

1. plural of Jesus (male given name)
   • 2004 May 21, Riain Barton, “Was Jesus a Jew?”, in alt.bible (Usenet):

     In his Antiquities, of the twenty -eight high priests who held office from the reign of Herod the Great to the fall of the Temple, no fewer than four bore the name Jesus: Jesus ben Phiabi, Jesus ben Sec, Jesus ben Damneus and Jesus ben Gamaliel. Even Saint Paul makes reference to a rival magician, preaching ‘another Jesus’ (2 Corinthians 11,4). The surfeit of early Jesuses includes: […]

   • 2011 September 2, Athel Cornish-Bowden, “Re: WHO IS JESUS ????????????”, in alt.english.usage (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:

     >>> WHO IS JESÚS? / > / > / > Don't you know? He's the bloke down the road that sells firewood. He also / > drinks too much and gets into fights. / Yeah, but you live in Spain, don't you. Not a lot of Jesuses (Jesi?) around here.

   • 2014 October 21, Your Name, “Re: Ebola and Climate Change”, in alt.autos.toyota (Usenet), message-ID <211020141836552514%[email protected]>:

     I explained it above ... he obviously only appears every 4000 - 5500 years, so the fools still have another 2000+ years to wait for him to appear again. ;-) / Of course, there's probably hundreds of Jesuses (Jesi??) born every year in Spanish speaking countries, so even if the fictional fool did come back he'd need to use a different name ... maybe Zingnut-weeblebuster. ;-)

Noun

Jesuses

1. plural of Jesus (“the Christian savior”)
   • 1854, Johann Lorenz, Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity, S. Converse, page 311:

     The Manichaeans had two Jesuses, an impassive and a passive, a Savior of souls and a Savior of bodies.

   • 1972, Andrew M. Greeley, The Denominational Society: A Sociological Approach to Religion in America, page 106:

     Witchcraft, voodoo, black magic, and sorcery may not play prominent parts in American religion, but faith healing and miracle working are extremely important - to such an extent that they, too, have tended to become organized and institutionalized, much to the horror of the more liberal religionists who are aghast at plastic Jesuses on automobiles and towers of faith at Oral Roberts University.

   • 1996, Rick Reilly, Missing Links, page 59:

     One Christmas, he talked me into going around town stealing all the baby Jesuses out of creche scenes. We had Jesuses that lit up from underneath and Jesuses whose crowns lit up and Jesuses whose hands and feet moved. We had porcelain Jesuses and plastic Jesuses and wooden Jesuses...

   • 2003, Richard G Walsh, Reading the Gospels in the Dark, Continuum International, page 182:

     His Jesus, who has important precursors in the Jesuses of Jewison and Greene, is embarrassingly riven and indecisive.

   • 2005, George Aichele et al., Those Outside, Continuum International, page 43:

     This interest comes in part from living in the southern United States and being surrounded by various Jesuses, from the fiery cosmic judge of the immanent end time of the Pentecostal denominations to the more distant enthroned high priest in liturgical garb and voice of the higher church traditions.

Usage notes

Care should be taken to establish context when using this term as some Christians find the notion of more than one Jesus to be blasphemous.

Verb

Jesuses

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of Jesus