also, wouldn’t the fact that Christ was God mean He could speak any language He wanted to? (Some might argue he was bound by earthly limits, however, that does’;t hold as He routinely exceeded earthly law) It seems to me that holding Him bound to earthly law/rules is an attempt to discredit His deity- which seems t be a specialty of ‘scholars’ who look at everything through the prism of human limitations- which is odd since we are after all talking about God come to earth
Certainly, but we’re not talking about what language Christ spoke or understood.
What TBP and I were discussing was New Testament manuscripts, the earliest of which were written in Greek.
The reason why they were in Greek was that Greek was the lingua franca of the time, even moreso than Latin. It was also why Gentiles were referred to in the New Testament as “Greeks” even if they came from some place nowhere near Greece - they didn’t know Hebrew, so they conversed with Judeans in Greek for the most part.