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To: A.A. Cunningham
guys: Both Pilate and Jesus probably spoke Greek. Greek was the official language of the eastern Roman Empire due to Alexander the Great: aka Hellenic civilization.

Jesus probably worked as a carpenter/construction worker at the Greek town near Nazareth, and the area of Egypt where his family lived when he was young was the Greek speaking city of Alexandria. In other words, lots of Greek speakers in the “pagan” parts of Galilee...

Pilate like most educated Romans probably spoke Greek too.

Aramaic was the language of the Semetic area of the eastern empire (Palestine/Mesopotamia) and yes, there is also a chance that pilot spoke Aramaic.

67 posted on 09/03/2012 12:52:57 AM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: LadyDoc

Why don’t you address the absurd nonsense that Christ and the Apostles would know nothing of Latin.


73 posted on 09/03/2012 9:13:03 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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