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Iesus (oþþe Ihesus, Jesus) is se ƿeorþlic ƿiht on crīstendōme. Þā Crīstnas hine nemnaþ Iesus Crist (of Hebrēisce ישו [Yĕšūa‘], and Crēacisc: Χριστός (Christos)). Hē hatte ēac Iesus Nasarenisc forþǣm hē ƿunode on Nazareþ, þēah þæt hē ƿæs on Bethleheme geboren.
Crīstnas gelīefaþ hē ƿǣre geƿyrdelic man and hē lifde fram ymbe (6–4 BC oþ ymbe AD 29–33), and manig (ac nā eall) ƿoruldlic scōleras cnāƿaþ þā sceaf Iesuse. Crīstnas ēac gelīefaþ, be þǣre geƿitegunge þǣre feoƿera godspella, þe sind þā forman bēc þǣre Nīƿu Gecȳþnes on þǣre Biblia, þæt Iesus ƿæs se Hælend and se Sunu Godes. Se nama Christos secgeð þæt he ƿǣre "gesealfod," þæt is þæt God hine of ƿerum gesundrode tō hālignesse. Tō æthreddenne us fram þǣm ǣƿigan deaðe in þǣre Helle, hē stearf for ūrum synnum on þǣm Crístesmǣle (on þǣre rōde) æt Golgota, ǣgyltas þe ƿē dōþ ƿiþ Gode and ƿiþ ǣghƿilcum ōðrum. Tō āƿinnenne þone deaþ, nam Jesus se Hælend sige ofer þǣm deaðe on ðriddum dæge. Hē āstōd fram dēaðe and þæt græf opennode.