[roamer_1]

Galilee = Aramaic speaking...

LOL!!! Just yesterday you were sure that Hebrew as a language was dead 400 years before Christ.

Now you seem to be reduced to fighting for the idea that a devout and orthodox-raised Nazarene could not possibly speak Hebrew, which was undoubtedly spoken in both the synagogues and the Temple (psst: Ezra). Yes.... the Temple: Where that twelve year old Nazarene astounded the scholars with His intimate knowledge of the Scriptures... THAT Temple.

This argument is well past over. If you want to argue just for the sake of argument, I am not interested in continuing.

If you actually have an interest in the truth, I might suggest a work by an eminent scholar, Dr. David Flusser: Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988)

[Cronos]

1. No one said anything about Jesus not knowing Hebrew or other languages. The focus was on his audience, which was primarily people from Galilee
2. Most historians believe that Hebrew was reduced to a liturgical language at least 300 years before Christ while Aramaic was the common man's language
3. A small minority believe (and haven't convincly proven it to others) that Hebrew survived in some areas -- BUT IMPORTANTLY, even these sources say that Galilee was an Aramaic speaking area

So, now, let's see -- whichever the historian, both say that the people of Galilee were Aramaic speakers. BOTH agree that Aramaic was the language of trade and commerce and the lingua franca of the middle east.

Jesus spoke to these Aramaic speakers. Despite knowing all the other languages, He spoke the common man's (and remember that included Peter and Andres and James and John) tongue -- ARAMAIC

Hence, he would have spoken "you are Kepha and on this kepha..."