"PROBABLY" speaking Greek?!?!?!
You don't care what the Holy Spirit inspired Scripture says in the language in which it was inspired, and hang your hat on what may have been said in maybe a different language??????
And you know what Jesus said in the Aramaic just how? And you know He was speaking Aramaic in the first place, just how?
How do you know He wasn't speaking Hebrew?
I didn't say that, you did....I said probably speaking Aramaic....possibly Hebrew but probably not Greek.
Just out of curiosity, why did people, in a minute village in Israel, have to know 3 languages????
And there are substantial arguments that even if Jesus was speaking Aramaic, there are words in Aramaic that would have retained the distinction between Peter and the Rock anyway. So the retreat to Aramaic buys the “I am of Peter” faction absolutely nothing. For a great study of the issue, see Chrys Caragounis’ book, “Peter and the Rock.”
Which is why we are better off sticking with the words we have been given, inspired in the Greek by the Holy Spirit. Speculation without a solid foundation is a fast track to serious error.
Peace,
SR