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Do you always make things up like this? Even a cursory check of facts would show you that you need your own medicine. The area where Peter lived is Plestine; it has nothing to do with being Jewish. The Jews of the 1st century AD spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew.

Show us all the word for "Palestine" in that Greek New Testament of yours. You won't find any because Israel began to be called Palestine only after the Romans renamed it in the middle of the 2nd century AD -- not before.

And while you are at it, show us the word "Aramaic" in that Greek bible of yours??? Jesus spoke to Paul on the road to Damascus in Hebrew and Paul understood it and Paul spoke to the crowd in Acts 22 in Hebrew and the crowd understood it and the inscription on the cross was in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew not Greek, Latin, and Aramaic.

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Show us all the word for "Palestine" in that Greek New Testament of yours...Israel began to be called Palestine only after the Romans renamed it in the middle of the 2nd century AD -- not before.

You are amazing! In the 5th century BC, Greek historian Herodotus calls the area Palestiné.

And while you are at it, show us the word "Aramaic" in that Greek bible of yours???

The Jews spoke Aramaic and referred to Aramaic as "Hebrew tongue" when Jesus walked the earth. The ancient Hebrew was probably use donly in the temple, but in the synagogues the language was Aramaic. Jewish Encyclopedia reveals that the 1st century Jewish historian

"Josephus [Flavius] considers Aramaic so thoroughly identical with Hebrew that he quotes Aramaic words as Hebrew ("Ant." iii. 10, § 6), and describes the language in which Titus' proposals to the Jerusalemites were made (which certainly were in Aramaic) as Hebrew ("B. J." vi. 2, § 1)."

The Temple Hebrew was the OT Hebrew which was not spoken. The Dead Sea Scrolls used a different Hebrew, known as the Mishanic Hebrew.

Jewish Encyclopedia, further, reveals that "The "List of the Fast-Days" (nullMegillat Ta'anit), edited before the destruction of the Temple, was written in Aramaic."

Jewish historian of the 1st century, Josephus Flavius wrote the Jewish War in Old Judean Aramaic. Parts of Old Testament Book of Daniel (Dan. 2:4, 7:28) are written in Aaramaic.

Prophet Nehemiah (13:24) states that the children "could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.".

Ezra verses 4:23, 5:5, 6:13-18 are actually written in Aramaic, not in Hebrew.

The process of Aramaization among Hebrews was a slow process. According to Jewish Encycopedia, around 300 BC (4th century before Chirst), Aramaic appears in Jewish literature.

Furthermore, Jewish Encyclopedia reflects on the religious language of the 1st century Palestinian Jews revealing that even the languge of the scripture was Aramaic and the scripture itself (the Targum) was in Aramaic:

"The tannaitic Halakah speaks of the Targum as an institution closely connected with the public Bible-reading, and one of long-established standing. But, just as the translation of the Scripture lesson for the benefit of the assembled people in the synagogue had to be in Aramaic, so all addresses and homilies hinging upon the Scripture had to be in the same language. Thus Jesus and his nearest disciples spoke Aramaic and taught in it (see Dalman, "Die Worte Jesu")."

You are reading literally and out of context of Palestinian reality and culture in the 1st century BC, and you are drawing erroneous conclusions. Read more history and the Bible will make a lot more sense.