[MHGinTN]

Some believe that it was originally in Hebrew because it was written to Jews by a Jew who was a tax collector for the Roman government. Mathew presents Christ as the son of David and son of Abraham and characterizes Jerusalem as the holy city.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Some believe that it was originally in Hebrew because it was written to Jews by a Jew who was a tax collector for the Roman government.

I thought that Hebrew was not a living language by the timre of Christ, and that everyone spoke Aramaic, originally the language of Aram, essentially Syria, but which had become the language of the entire region.