When eight days had passed and the time for circumcision came—that ancient sign of the covenant between God and his people—the child received his name: JesustranslateTextJesusHebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua), means "YHWH saves" or "YHWH is salvation." The name is a mission: it summarizes who this child will be and what he will do. Not Mary or Joseph chose the name—the angel had announced it before conception (Luke 1:31). The parents carried out what God had determined., as the angel had called him even before he was conceived.