***and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.” ***
And this proves what?
The people that Jesus had hacked off most were the religious hierarchy. Why would they not have written in Hebrew? The inscription that also was in evidence was in Latin. Almost none of the Jewish people knew Latin.
This is grasping at straws. Jesus spoke Aramaic and probably Greek.
You got that right, Mark.
Very informative and well worth a read.
That Jesus spoke Hebrew amongst the Jews --
The people that Jesus had hacked off most were the religious hierarchy. Why would they not have written in Hebrew?
Why -- indeed.
The inscription that also was in evidence was in Latin. Almost none of the Jewish people knew Latin.
The Latin was there on the cross for the Roman soldiers. The Greek was there for visitors or outsiders to the area -- as the common language of the empire. But the Hebrew [Hebraisti] was there specifically for Jesus and the Jews. Aramaic was not generally spoken by Jesus amongst the Jews around Jerusalem who were very protective of their nationalism and religious heritage which was recorded in Hebrew. If Aramaic was spoken by Jesus amongst the Jews, then it should have been on the cross instead of the Hebrew.
This is grasping at straws.
Those who refuse to acknowledge that Jesus and the Jews in Judea spoke Hebrew are the ones grasping at straws and prefabrications.
Jesus spoke Aramaic and probably Greek.
Jesus could speak any language he chose, but since Hebrew was the language that issued forth from the Tables of the Law of Moses and the rest of the scriptures that He gave to them, Hebrew was the language of choice for the Messiah that Moses prophesied would come, and the Jewish people whose heritage issued forth from those Hebrew scriptures.