Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - jesus

 I. noun  Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek Iesous, from Hebrew Yeshua‘  Date: before 12th century  1. the Jewish religious teacher whose life, death, and resurrection as reported by the Evangelists are the basis of the Christian message of salvation — called also ~ Christ  2. Christian Science the highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man's immortality  II. biographical name  or ~ Christ or Christ ~  circa 6 B.C.-circa A.D. 30 ~ of Nazareth; the Son of Mary source of the Christian religion & Savior in the Christian faith