“Complete nonsense! They were not likely translated into Greek until the late 3rd century.”
“http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/NewTestament/Gospels/RylandsPap.htm";
Does this, sir, look like Hebrew to you? Median date on that is 125 AD, just 90 years after Christ’s death and resurrection.
“They had to have been written in Hebrew because the cost of educating the disciples.”
Luke was an educated man, so was Matthew. So was John. So was Mark. You are right in that not all the disciples were educated, but not all the gospels were written by disciples. Also, after Pentecost, are you arguing it was beyond the means of the Holy Spirit? It’s a gift to speak a language that one does not know, as it is a gift to be able to interpret said language.
“in a foreign language was far beyond their means, and completely without purpose.”
Greek was the lingua franca of the day. Pretty much everyone had some familiarity with Greek in the near east. You’re asserting that knowledge of Greek was ‘completely without purpose? In a world dominated by the Hellenes?
>> “Luke was an educated man, so was Matthew. So was John. So was Mark.” <<
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Gibberish!
Luke was ‘educated’ by pharmacists; the rest were educated only to the extent that they would have been from worship in the synogogue, and preparation for their BM. Matthew was a toll collector, and needed only to understand Roman coinage.
At pentecost, the men were not speaking anything but Hebrew; the work of the Holy Spirit was that others each heard in their own language, even though all was spoken in YHVH’s language. That is what the gift of ‘tongues’ is all about. It isn’t speaking in another language; it’s others hearing in their language for their edification. Those that babble in strange words are not gifted; they are charletans.