To: friendly
Both wrong. The language of Jesus and the common Jewish people was neither Greek, nor Latin, nor Hebrew. It was something called Aramaic, the dominant language (99%) of the movie The Passion. Aramaic was local; koine was the lingua franca of the Roman world, just as English is today, and Latin from the middle ages until recently.
To: Agnes Heep
Pilate was from Spain and would have spoken Latin. So too, the Roman soldiers who were from the Italian peninsula. The cultural language of the empire was Greek, but Latin was also spoken as well as the various indigenous languages.
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