IX
In Greek (the language in which the New Testament was written), “Jesus Christ” is “Ἰησοῦς Χριστός” (Iēsous Khrīstos). The initial letters (Ι & Χ) are transcribed in the Roman alphabet as I X. Together those letters represent the number 9. In Chinese, the number 9 (九, jiǔ) represents both “eternal” (the homophone 久, jiǔ) and,…