The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Gospel of Jesus, beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ is precisely with the question you raised. What did the term Messiah mean in the ancient world and how would Jewish and Gentile audiences have understood it? The word Christ is the Greek word comes from a Greek word Christos, which means a person who's been anointed. And so Messiah and Christ are the same word ones in Hebrew and ones in Greek.