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I've very confident that Jesus spoke Aramaic to his disciples and not Greek.

I think your confidence is misplaced.

Yeshua spoke Hebrew. And Matthew was originally an Hebrew MS (likely all of the NT books were).

No, it was Aramaic. Aramaic was a Hebrew based dialect anyway. A better linguist than me could probably take the verse in Aramaic AND Hebrew, side by side, and they'd be a lot closer in both words and grammar than the later Greek, which was my original point. :-) While much of the New Testament was WRITTEN in Greek, that was not the spoken language it later translated from.

Nothing you've said changes the fact that Jesus (which is his English name, and since I'm an American speaking English, it is no sin to call him Jesus, nor saintly to call him Yeshua--I just want every one to know we're talking about the same Messiah, or in Greek, Christ) wasn't speaking Greek, so he didn't word play between Petros and Petra, which was my original point.

Jesus could certainly speak Hebrew, and any language if He wanted to, but not every disciple was as versed in formal Hebrew as Jesus—take Simon, later Cephas, whom we now call Saint Peter and his brother Saint Andrew, who were simple fishermen, for example.

If you have any scholarship that shows He did not speak Syriac or Aramaic, but only Hebrew, please enlighten me with a link, Brother. But whatever, believe anything you want. I'm certain one day we'll all know, when we stand before Him in all His Glory.

“Yeshua spoke Hebrew. And Matthew was originally an Hebrew MS (likely all of the NT books were).”

Uh, no. Just, plain, no. All of the NT was originally written in Greek.