Messiah

Messiah is a Hebrew word (Maschíach) meaning “the Anointed One.” In the New Testament, the Greek form “the Christ” is used and applied to the Lord Jesus alone. The Jews, as well as the Samaritans (John 4:25), were expecting the Messiah/the Christ to come in order to take over the kingdom and deliver them from their enemies. The Jews, in general, rejected him and crucified their Messiah. But some of them (the disciples of the Lord Jesus and others) realized that he was the one whom they had been looking for – as Andrew said to his brother Peter: “We have found the Messiah (which being interpreted is Christ)” (John 1:41) or  Philip said to Nathanael: “We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth” (John 1:45).