#12530 Explaining The Holy Name of Jesus - Tom Nash
Catholic Answers Live
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🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This Catholic Answers Live episode explores the biblical and theological meaning of the name of Jesus, explaining why the Church celebrates a feast in His honor and how Scripture uses His name to express authority, presence, and saving power. The discussion clarifies why Jesus is called both Jesus and Emmanuel, what it means to gather, pray, and believe “in His name,” and why invoking the name of Jesus is not a magical formula. Listeners also learn why baptisms performed only “in the name of Jesus” are invalid and what the mysterious name written on the foreheads in the Book of Revelation signifies.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:55 – Why do we have a feast for the Name of Jesus?
- 13:06 – Why is his name Jesus if the angel said to name him Emmanuel?
- 18:00 – What does it mean when Jesus talks about receiving someone “in my name”?
- 21:55 – What does it mean when Jesus says “when two or three are gathered in my name…”?
- 29:15 – Believing in the “name” of Jesus
- 35:15 – If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
- 47:30 – Improper use of Jesus’ name
- 50:01 – Why is the baptism in the name of Jesus invalid?
- 52:50 – What is the name written on the forehead about in the book of Revelation?
Transcript
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| 0:35.7 | Even if you're not just joining us, I'll say it to you again, happy New Year. We started it. Can you believe we started another one? 2026. I can't, I still can't get over the fact that we started in the 2000s. I can't, I'm still not adjusted to that, what century we're in. But 2026, boy, time flies. Tempest fugitive, as they say. This hour, we're going to talk about a |
| 0:57.8 | feast tomorrow is the feast of the holy name of Jesus. And we're going to talk with Tom Nash |
| 1:04.1 | about that. And Tom Nash, of course, apologist and writer and theologian and all-around good guy. |
| 1:10.7 | Hi, Tom Nash. Hey, how you doing, Cy? Happy New Year. |
| 1:13.6 | Happy New Year. I have to say, coming into 2026, one of the really nice things that happened in 2025 |
| 1:20.7 | was you got closer, that you came and you live out here now and you're in the office every day. That's been really nice, Tom. Very nice of you. Oh, no. Just like me, you long to be. If you're careful, you've got to be careful about singing because YouTube will, I don't know what you. Tell them to stop it. YouTube will do something to us. It's bad, right? Don't do it. But the year 2000. |
| 1:44.5 | Just look at the YouTube department over there. |
| 1:46.3 | The year 2000, though, dovetails in what we're going to talk about today because it was to |
| 1:51.7 | celebrate the 2000th anniversary of our Lord Jesus Christ's birth. Remember that. |
| 1:57.2 | And the Y2K didn't happen, praise God. |
| 2:00.1 | Y2K did happen. |
| 2:01.5 | Well. |
| 2:02.1 | It went on for a whole year. |
| 2:04.1 | Oh, you're talking about the computers going down. |
| 2:06.0 | All right, let me ask you a question about the Holy Name of Jesus. |
| 2:09.0 | Because this, I am going to, in the course of this hour, try to give people an understanding of how often the word the name or the name of Jesus is used |
| 2:21.5 | in the New Testament. It's when you actually start looking through for these, which I did |
| 2:27.2 | yesterday preparing for this. It's astonishing how often that phrase comes up. So here's what I |
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