I’ve always wondered how his name was actually pronounced, as Aramaic speakers. Doubt it was “Gee-zus.” In spanish speaking countries, it’s “Hey-zeus.”
Damn foreigner. Should have some English.
Jesus spoke any language he wanted...In fact, Jesus spoke every language...
If I’m not mistaken, Maronite Catholics still use Aramaic in their liturgy - not entirely, but in select portions.
Ask Maxine Waters, she knows more about religion than God.
He spoke truth.
Apparently it’s a dead language these days.
Hebrew & Aramaic is probably comparable to Church Latin & the vernacular languages in the Middle Ages. Spoken by the scribes and priesthood and kept as a type of guild secret to preserve its purity (charitable view) or to maintain power (cynical view).
The history in England of getting from the imposed and restricted Latin-language Bible to the predecessors of the King James Bible shows the absolute mania of the Church hierarchy to maintain a dependent populace and that might have been similar to Israel then. Lots of martyrs to the cause of allowing the individual to know the WORD.
There was no such country as Palestine in the first century and onward. Palestine was a name not a country.
Jesus probably knew enough Greek to understand it. But he wouldn’t have spoken it as his first language. He also wouldn’t have used it in his daily conversation or taught the crowds in Greek.
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Jesus probably knew enough Greek to understand it????
Is this author for real??
20Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek. John 19:20 NASB
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All of Judea spoke Hebrew. There were outsiders that spoke other languages, such as Aramaic, but at no time did the Hebrew population speak anything but Hebrew.
English!
The leftist say that Jesus spoke Mexican.
Aramaic likely but also Hebrew The languages are closely related and Jesus read from, almost certainly also preached in Hebrew in synagogue. Szswes
There was not a Palestine in the time of Jesus. In fact, Judea and Samaria were part of the Syrian Province of Rome. The first time it was officially called Palestine was when The Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed it Palestina Syriana, in order to erase Judea (and Israel) after he suppressed the Bar Kochba Rebellion in 132 CE. Hadrian adapted the name from the Assyrians. The Greek Philosopher Herodotus referred to the area between Phonecia (Lebanon) and Egypt as the Syrian Province of Palaistine in the 5th Century BCE. The term Palestine was translated from the Greco-roman word pleshet, which would roughly translate to wanderer or migratory. There has never been a nation of Palestine, or a Palestinian city, but throughout history was referred to as an area of migration. This where the Phoenicians dumped their goods and then were transported to the east. Israel has always been a crossroads to the east. That is why every major Empire sought to control it. For the Palestinians to claim it as their ‘country’ is like if someone claimed Interstate 10 in the US as their ‘country’ because they drove on it.
This is a professional article, and one on language, so I make free:
It is not, “The second, and most... “ but “The second, and more...”
The author previously established that there are but two reasons from which to choose.
There were many Jews who spoke Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek
Jesus spoke Ebonics.