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“Come, follow me.” — Matthew 4:19
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What the Bible says, explained without jargon.
The word "Christ" is a title meaning "Anointed," and the New Testament uses it that way, not as a last name.
The word appears only once in Hebrew and never as a proper name: this is how the confusion began.