Original sentence: " Tabor and Philip Esler consider that, yet another name, "the Way", was the name apparently preferred by the group itself."Christian" itself (a word derived from "Christ" and so meaning, in essence, Messianist), is another of the earliest names, as evidenced by , where the context of its invention is given as the first notable expansion, at Antioch, of belief in Jesus as the Messiah outside of Palestinian Jews."Nazarene" is one of the earliest names for followers of Jesus, as evidenced in , where the spokesman for the high priest and elders called Paul "a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes".Another of the earliest names is "the disciples" (, meaning "the learners"), as evidenced by the overwhelming use of this name throughout the Acts of the Apostles.It was used by their adversaries, and in the form Nozri became the usual name in Jewish literature to refer to Christians.James Tabor suggests that this name preceded all the other names, and that the word "Christian" was an attempt to approximate Nazarene in Greek.Joseph Henry Thayer's A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament states: "In the Acts  are all those who confess Jesus as the Messiah, Christians.Thayer's Lexicon says that  (the way), standing alone (not as part of a phrase such as "the way all flesh"), is used several times in Acts to refer to the Christian religion.This name was destined to become the usual name used, both by themselves and others, for followers of Jesus