[MHGinTN]

You really have not a clue do you! Right in the epistles there is the direction to share the letters with the believers! Even if only one or two in an ekklesia could read the Greek the others could listen. Really, old man, you should try to make halfway intelligent assertions, even if you can’t stand the truth.

[terycarl]

You really have not a clue do you! Right in the epistles there is the direction to share the letters with the believers! Even if only one or two in an ekklesia could read the Greek the others could listen. Really, old man, you should try to make halfway intelligent assertions, even if you can’t stand the truth.

I never even suggested that people couldn't be read to....I said that the VAST majority of the population could not read.

[metmom]

Peter and John were fishermen, and they wrote parts of the NT.

THEY knew how to write.

And they were just fishermen.