[kosta50]

Hebrew was not a spoken language of Palestine in the 1st century? That would come as quite a shock to Pontius Pilate who recruited Hebrew speaking Centurions (investigators, in a religion sense not a police force sense) to go among the Jews and learn what their religious beliefs were, to better understand the culture over which he had been assigned!

Yes, but by "Hebrew speaking" centurions they mean Aramaic-speaking. The confusion comes from the Greek of the New Testament, which uses the term hebraïs to describe the language spoken in Palestine, but the it actually refers to the Jewish version of Aramaic (i.e. Chaldee), not the biblical Hebrew the Old Testament was written in. That language found in the Greek OT (LXX) anything OT Hebrew is referred to as ioudaïs.

Jewish Encyclopedia states that "as time went on the circle of the Hebrew-speaking population narrowed down, in spite of that language having sole control of the school, the synagogue, and the literature, until Hebrew became exclusively the language of literature and prayer." [my emphasis]

[MHGinTN]

Kosta, stop trying to spin a ‘whole cloth’ ... in what language was the scroll read aloud in Temple, in the synagogue? And were there Jewish synagogues all over the known world in the first century? And do you suppose the Sanhedrin met and spoke Aramaic, not the pure Hebrew? Stretch credulity to convince yourself, but don't expect reason to flee just to help you spin.