Day 11 • Question 29
29
Why
is
the
Son
of
God
called
Jesus,
that
is,
Saviour?
Footnote 1
Matthew 1:21
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
Hebrews 7:25
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Footnote 2
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
John 15:4-5
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Acts 4:11-12
This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,