Did Jesus Speak Greek?
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- Jesus spoke Aramaic, but could he possibly have known other languages? Does the Greek New Testament preserve any of the original Greek words spoken by Jesus?
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-Literally God incarnate
-Heals the sick/blind, cures leprosy
-Resurrects himself and others from death
-Walked on water
-Turns water into wine
-Spoke multiple languages
Idk, that last one might be hard to believe. Speaking multiple languages is kinda hard, you know?
@@thiagoemanuel8607 Hard, but not impossible.
@@thomasecker940560% of my coworkers are bilingual.
@@thiagoemanuel8607 No, it's not. Totally silly, ignorant statement. Many people in Europe and throughout the world speak multiple languages. Americans speak only one language, for the most part.
@@michaelbabbitt3837 I think he was being sarcastic.
Jesus talked to many non Jews in the Gospels, assuming that he always had to have an interpreter for that would be funny. I grew up in Ukraine during USSR, as a kid I learned both Ukrainian and Russian without any question. Russian was the language of the "Empire" - USSR and Ukrainian was local language. In my mind it is not even a question if Jesus spoke more than one language.
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Jesus probaly speak at least 3 languages which arr Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek
Well, if you assume that the Roman Empire had ruled there since 63 BC and the Greek sphere of influence was already established around 300 BC, then it is only normal that people in these regions grew up at least bilingual.
If you take into account that in my country (DE) English has been officially taught in all schools since around 1964, then it is not surprising that most people can communicate in this language. Attention, this does not apply to the older generation in the eastern part of my country. These people learned Russian.
* Regionally, especially within the Hanseatic League, young merchants were already in the 14th and 15th centuries taught the English language .
I’m from Asia and where I come from we can speak at least 3 languages one of which would be English even as children.
Being born American to a Hispanic household, learning both English and Spanish were a given to us, then I studied French in high school, I don’t see how many think He wouldn’t have known more than one language
Islam Critiqued also did a video once on this in response to Muslims in his comment sections "Jesus Spoke Aramaic but the Gospels were Written in Greek!"
I recommend watching it too.
Very hypocritical from them, given that Quran is written in Arabic, language that Jesus never spoke.
@user-mh2md4te9i
Yeah, they argue that Allah made that translation and, therefore, is a perfect translation and rendering of what Jesus taught.
@@user-mh2md4te9i well the word injil in the quran itself derives from greek
Adam Stewart - Thank you for recommending that video. *_Excellent_* content in a dispassionate, "just the facts, ma'am" presentation style.
Good stuff.
Islam Critiqued believes in three gods.
In addition, Jesus being the Son of God would mean that He could have realistically spoken any language necessary for His ministry.
True, but It's more pragmatic to have the ability to prove the. validity of the scripture to a skeptic.
@@B.W_edits This.
Yet Jesus appears to have lived daily life on much the same terms as any of the rest of us - miracles seem to be something very special - toward a purpose of glorifying God the Father in Heaven (Jesus said as much).
So if Jesus were bi-lingual or multi-lingual, am of the opinion that it was due to the cultural circumstances he was born into.
It's only at the apostles preaching at Pentecost that the scriptures denote the miraculous aspects of their ability to seemingly preach in the native languages of the far flung pilgrim audience they were addressing.
The scriptures don't make mention of that kind of thing per the ministry of Jesus.
@@TheSulross They don't, but we have to remember that this is the incarnate Son of God we are talking about. Had the necessity arisen, I'm sure He would've been able to speak other languages. You are correct though, the scriptures do not specify. Aramaic he spoke for sure, Greek is highly likely, and Hebrew would be a reasonable guess.
@@catholiceditz Yet among all the gospels, Acts, and the epistles of Paul, they sure seem to note a lot of interesting details for those paying attention. That they don't make any mention of Jesus miraculously preaching/teaching in a language other than that he normally spoke in - is most probably because he never did such a thing in conducting his ministry.
Am very confident these authors would have noted such if it had happened, because these guys just don't let such important details go by unremarked. (I.e., there is nothing that remarks something like "his disciples were astounded as Jesus conversed with some gentiles [name a group] in their native language as they had never heard him speak in this language before". When you're with someone like that day in and day out, it would definitely stand out if something like that happened.)
Speculation based on hand-waving assumptions is not a very convincing way to study Jesus and the early church - and base apologetics on. It's much more rewarding to stay grounded in the information that has been conveyed down to us. Doing otherwise has the effect of ultimately undermining the Gospel message that is being conveyed to unbelievers.
Nicely done
Having spent time in Egypt as a child, Jesus may also have known some Egyptian. We also have evidence of Jesus reading from the scroll in the synagogue, so he clearly also read and spoke Hebrew.
Greek might have been enough for egypt.
Alexandria was a Greek city in Egypt where the old testament was translated from Hebrew to Greek in the times of Alexander the Great
Yep.
in egypt the jews were speaking greek, the septuagint (greek old testament) comes from egypt.... that translation is older than the masoretic text that came later to reconstruct the complete hebrew bible which was believed to be lost.
Cleopatra was apparently the only one in her family who learnt to speak Egyptian. The rest stuck with Greek.
Speaking Greek in those days and in that region was as common as people who speak English in Kenya, India and New Zealand today
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@Debater1 your Quran says He is a messiah. Using only the Quran, define what that means.
He was also called a servant.
That is utterly brilliant.
Typical Monolingual mistake...assuming monolingualism was/ is and has always been the norm.
Funny how outside China, Mexico, and many former British colonies, most people are multilingual.
I just assumed Jesus was a polyglot but never had real evidence.
This is pretty wild. I literally just had an Uncle of mine last night ask, "Why should we trust the New Testament if it was written in Greek, and Jesus and his followers spoke Aramaic?"
Was going to research that question/objection today, and here we are! 😮
Tell him people weren't illiterate back then and lingua franca languages existed over 2000 years ago.
@@uberfeel yeah i always thought this objection was so flimsy. Translation has been a part of human history for literally 1000s of years. The infastructure existed to do it, Scribes would have been perfectly capable, so where's the problem?
Why u Christian worship one Jew?😂
I m also Jewish worship me too and also worship whole Israel..its all Jewish😂😂
This is a legit, good-faith question by a sincere student of Greek and Aramaic only.
Glory to God! 😊
I was taught this in seminary. Greek was the business language.
As a student of Greek… this was remarkable and an enigma I had been trying to make sense of
Thank you so much
I'm surprised that there are people that would argue against this.
Never underestimate atheistic desperation.
@@coffeehousedialogue5684 I guess you are right.
Muslims/potatoes would argue that Jesus is a muslim bdw
That's because Christianity effectively destroyed history. If you follow the actual academic standards for the discipline of history, Christianity is undeniably true.
This is why you see so much bias and anti-academic as it pertains to the study of Jesus.
See also why we have far more doubt as to the words of Jesus consistent across multiple Gospels in less than a century after is death (by late dating), but nobody contest the words of ancient military leaders who's only source for existence is some author writing multiple centuries after their life.
@@sadscientisthououinkyouma1867 good point
The inscription on the cross was written in hebrew,Latin and Greek. Meaning language was diverse and if language was diverse in a large city,this means people had to be multilingual to live together.
It also seems possible (I'm not an expert) that where the Greek passage seems awkward, implying an Aramaic original, that the person actually was just speaking an Aramized form of Greek. In other words, the Aramic original existed, but was inside the person's head. It is possible to speak a second language in a way that mimics a first language. Anyone who lives in a bilingual cultural milieu knows this. In South Texas, a native English speaker often speaks their Spanish with more English-style word order and vocabulary and vice versa when native Spanish speakers speak English.
Perhaps in some of these instances, we are not seeing Greek text marked by being originally spoken and then translated out of Aramaic, so much as the record of something that was spoken in Greek by a native-Aramaic mind.
I do not necessarily mean that Jesus may have spoken a poor, broken, form of Greek so much as that the popular form of Greek He may have spoken in certain circumstances may have been a heavily Aramized Greek.
I wonder what an actual linguist would say to this, as I'm just a layman throwing out guesses.
That's a fascinating idea I hadn’t considered. Your example of Spanish/English makes me think of an article I read about how Miami is developing its own unique English dialectic because of all the Spanish spoken there. Young people are using Spanish-style grammar and particularly prepositions (I think one example in the article was, "I get down from the car" rather than "I get out of the car").
Language is so interesting!
The Gospel of John or Mark is a good example of that kind of language.
This is 1st world bias. In South Africa everyone is either bi or trilingual. We are just raised amongst the different languages. My family speak fluent Xhosa without a single lesson.
For quite a few years, I've believed that Jesus spoke at least Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. And, he could have spoken any language he may have had to depending on who he came into contact with.
Considering Jesus quoted the Septuagint, yeah it's safe to say he spoke Greek.
Not to mention he spoke personally to legionairs more than once..he didn't just preach to his own tribe...
Kind of hard to do if there was a language barrier.
Thanks for this! Bart Ehrman has used the "Jesus only spoke Aramaic" assumption to discount the certainty of Jesus' famous one on one conversation in the third chapter of John's gospel. But isn't it interesting that Jesus is talking to a guy named Nicodemeus, a Jew with a Greek name? It's likely they both spoke Greek. Along with the multiple examples you give, Acts 6:1 mentiones the Hellenistic Jews among believers in the Jerusalem church. No reason Jesus could not have spoken Greek.
Bart Ehrman. Bart Ehrman. Have you heard of Bart Ehrman? There is this guy called Bart Ehrman.
Excellent. Greek then was the equivalent of English today. Universal. Salute.
Definitely. I don't if this is evidence but even our history books teach us that the words we use have a Greek sometimes latin origin like "Democracy"
Yes in a way, but Koine Greek was also designed to be easy for foreigners to learn, which is not something I often encounter attributed to English! 😉 Perhaps Esperanto would be a better analogy, if Esperanto had a military superpower enforcing it.
Hebrew, Greek, Coptic, and Aramaic, and possibly Latin. All of these were entirely possible.
Unless Christ was out and about speaking to folk in the 40s, Coptic is not among those. St. Mark went to Egypt after the Resurrection, and Coptic is a result of his visit.
@@bobSeigar then Egyptian of some variety is possible even if it would be too early for Coptic.
Only Americans would question the bilingual nature of a European region...
True, even though America was majority bilingual and trilingual almost 100 years ago.
There is very little reason for the average Amercian to learn a 2nd language. If there were, they would do it.
... or even (especially) the Near East 😉
Only Americans? Israel is in Europe? This might be bait...
@@joshd3502common euro fail
In Luke 4, Jesus reads from the scroll of Isaiah. He knew Hebrew to understand that.
Later correction: The quote seems to be from the LXX. This would support Jesus knowing Greek.
Thanks for the like Ip Man.
Not necessarily: the scroll would have been a Septuagint copy.
@@nikostheater He read it in a synagogue. Most likely Hebrew.
@@nikostheater "Reading" the Sefer scroll would've been in Hebrew and then a translator most likely would've recited/translated it from the Aramaic Targums which were later compiled as Targum Jonathan, Jerusalem Targum or Targum Unqelos. That was the standard Jewish tradition back then. This is why when you buy a modern day jewish old testament like Miqraoth Gedoloth you'll see the Aramaic Targums right next to the Hebrew text presented side by side.
And Galilee was a heavily "jewish" are so no need for the septuagint
@@treksta2009 Galilee was Jewish in the sense that most of the inhabitants were Jewish, but the whole region was hellenized . Next to Nazareth, was Sepphoris a Hellenistic town for example. The fact that even in Qumran there were scrolls of the Torah in the Septuagint shows that everywhere, the Greek language both spoken and written was very common, including in religious context in Second Temple Judaism.
Modern day Judaism is basically an offshoot of Second Temple Judaism, not the same.
Generally, the conquered have to learn the language of the conqueror.
In the time of Jesus, the Romans, who spoke Greek, were the the conquerors. Why do Indians, Zimbabweans, Sri Lankan and a whole host of other countries speak English? - Because they had been conquered/ruled/colonized by the English. Ditto for Surinam and Dutch, Namibia and German, Mozambique & Angola and Portuguese, etc., etc., etc.
Didnt the romans speak latin?
@@Hwje1111
Some did. The "universal" language at the time was Greek.
@@Hwje1111Yes, the first language of the Romans was Latin, but Alexander had created a simplified version of Greek known as Koine as a common language for his diverse empire. When the Romans took over they took advantage of this. When Augustus joked that it was better to be Herod's pig than his son it works better in Greek (υς/υιός) than in Latin (porcum / filium).
@@DarrenGedye Also keep in mind, that the Jews had likely already been Hellenized under Alexander, long before the Romans came in.
@@Cklert Oh absolutely! I was only referring to Hwje1111's question of why *Romans* as the ruling power would also know Greek, rather than trying to impose their Latin on their dominions as one might reasonably expect.
Aye. KOINE is said to have been the vernacular of the time.
Presumably popular among the MERCHANT class, in particular.
As a Christian who loves languages, thank you for making this. It's super amazing that Jesus was bilingual/trilingual!
What good timing! I was wondering about this just yesterday.
Jesus was tri lingual.. and literate.. he spoke Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek
He could also write, with his finger in the dust.
Now, who is it in the Old Testament who writes with a finger? Oh, look: YHWH!
Hebrew was not a spoken language in the first century.
@Magnulus76 it was read out in Hebrew by Jesus. This video missed the main point:being literate necessitated Greek or Hebrew. Literate/bilingual are the same thing because Aramaic was a spoken only language. You heard the news read out in Greek. You heard decrees and laws in Greek. You heard the Psalms in Hebrew.
I say, He spoke Latin too.
Given he spent his youth in Egypt,it's possible he could have known Egyptian as well.
It would be more suprising if he didn't speak Greek it was to the ancients what english is to us. One may argue that he'd likely not preach in greek, until we remember that he preached to gentiles as well.
Exactly; another comparison would be French in the 1700s.
And many times when quoting the Old Testament, Jesus quoted the Septuagint which was in Greek...
Dr. Peter Williams is a great source!
Thank you for your work brother.
Thanks for presenting this well-researched case and strengthening my faith in Jesus, Mike. May He always be with you!
Excellent presentation, Michael
VERY interesting and thought-provoking! Thank you very much for creating and producing this video, sir!
Awesome video summary interacting with Porter’s article. Thanks so much for putting it together!
Great arguments, IP!
Interesting as always IP.. when is the next debate? You are a talented debater.
Whenever we get someone with a sizable audience to agree. So far, no takers as of late. I am trying to not debate those who have much lower audience sizes, as I think it is worth my audience's time.
@InspiringPhilosophy thanks for the update you and your content has inspired me to dig deeper into my Bible and your videos are a wealth of knowledge
@@InspiringPhilosophy dude you could just mention the tongues....Jesus had the Holy spirit so he could also speak in tongues aka every single language that was and will be spoken
@@InspiringPhilosophy what is your debate subject of choice? Or is it whatever you are challenged with?
@@InspiringPhilosophylook up Ward Radio. Do they have an ample size audience to go on their show?
Really good video IP thank you. Amen 🙏 .
Excellent video IP. The sources that you gave compliment each other, even though they may disagree on minor things, for example when it's about the Aramaic verses and when exactly Jesus spoke Greek. I'll have to rewatch that video another time to retain more info but the first watch was good enough for the beginning.
Thank you Mike, may God bless you in your journey.
Luke 4:17 - Jesus is in the synagogue on sabbath in Nazareth reading from a scroll of Isaiah from the Greek Septuagint. It says he found the passage and he read it to the people. So everyone in Nazareth spoke, read and understood Greek as well. I think it's a sure thing that he spoke both Western Syriac Aramaic and Greek. The Hebrew may be debatable, however, the Pharisees sure had no problem noticing the name of God in the form of an acronym on the sign that was put on the cross. I think Hebrew was probably being utilized much more than scholars say it was, especially within Jerusalem.
Love the videos IP!
great episode.
The Galilee was quadralingual, by inscriptions. Especially the business types, like carpenter shops.
Good points Michael, at the very minimum we have translations into Greek by people who grew up bilingual, hence mirror Jesus' sayings as perfect as possible. But Jesus often spoke to outsiders, Roman soldier, Canaanite woman, Pilate etc.. Thus he likely was, at least in those moments, speaking in Greek. BTW, the Greek letter Pi is actually pronounced simply "P", because iota actually sounds like "eee"
This was definitely a good video, but I'm actually quite curious who recorded pilates and Jesus' conversation. (I'm christian btw)
Dear@@kenyonzebeda9644, I think it is likely that one or more of the people who were in the room, and later became Christian, and reported what went on. The Centurian whose servant Jesus healed perhaps?
Excellent video! 👏🏼
Great video. Funnily enough I first saw you on Redbar when one of his fans tried to mess with you in the chat about an “investigation”. As much as I like laughing at Redbar, your videos on faith are just as good. Hope all is well and that the troll didn’t get to you.
Omnilingual but deliberately limiting Himself in
His Humanity to just 3 or so languages until Resurrection when that self-restriction is no longer necessary
Keep up the good fight my brother.
Wonderful video…
I also hope you make a new one where you cover universalism. A concept that the gospel is for everyone as shown heavily in the gospel of Luke.
Praise, glory and thanks be to God. Thank you for the evidence IP
Jesus preached too the jews about the hebrew scripture.
He spoke aramaic too the locals.
He spoke too the roman leaders who spoke greek
But muslim refuse this and say he knew only aramaic because they do not care what it true. For them is more important to devalue Christianity and christ.
Another good resource on this particular subject is Craig Evans's encyclopedia on the historical Jesus. There’s an article in there about whether Jesus spoke Greek, and it breaks down many good points about how he would have known Greek.
As usual, IP has provided provocative insight for upholding the veracity of scripture against naysayers. Well done, sir.
Snazzy
Looking forward for mike to start a series on the book of Isaiah and Daniel 😊
I still like to imagine Jesus could speak perfect english if you went back in time.
Given how many time travellers have reported Jesus telling them “You’re not supposed to be here!” in perfect modern English when they went back to hear him preach, I assume so. 😅
You said hypothesis and not hypo(s)e(th)is… ❤ !!!!
Also, awesome video!!! lol ✌️You’re the best!
You make awesome content thank you 🙂 i have a question though Mike. Considering your depth of knowledge which is vast. Do you ever have doubts about Christ?
That's really great, thanks!! An additional string to your bow: In John 3:1-21, Jesus converses with a member of the Sanhedrin (as you said, a Greek name) whose name is Greek: "Nicodemus", from "Nike" or victory, and 'demos' or people. So his name meant 'victory of the people.'
Dorothy Sayers includes this in her play-cycle, "The Man Born to Be King", in which she includes a scene in which one of the Pilot's servants ask him if he wants him to fetch a translator. Pilot says, "Wait, I'll find out," and then he asks Jesus if he speaks Greek, to which Jesus replies that he does, and Pilot says, "Good, that saves time."
I feel lucky as a Greek to speak a language that Jesus spoke/knew
I'm learning Greek man. It's a lot easier to learn than I thought.
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As the joke goes, Jesus must have been Greek , if he was 30 and still living with his mom. 🇬🇷😎👍
Banger. Hit. Ate. 🗣🔥
Jesus also demonstrates he was familiar with Aesop’s Fables (and maybe his audience too). Could possibly be how he learned Greek?
The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, was the primary Bible of the Jews in the first century, and Jesus quoted from it more than he did from the Masoretic text.
Of course not. He spoke American and wrote Bible and founded the United States
The Constitution says so!
@@thepyramidschemepodcast which he also wrote
How KJV only people sound to me hahaha.
@@Kostas_Dikefalaiosunironically it’s what Mormons sound like too
@Kostas_Dikefalaios I do not read the KJV, but your comment sounds insulting and not very charitable to your fellow brothers in Christ.
This is always something that I figured to be true. Much of the world, even today, is bilingual or trilingual, using a lingua franca in terms of business, government, and media. It is uniquely American to only speak one language, even most Brits know a good bit of French, German, Scots, or a local Celtic language.
Even if Jesus didn't, we have the desciples referencing the Septuagint. I also have been told Mark is a sloppy Greek that grammatically works better in Hebrew, showing that it was Mark himself that penned the gospel taught by Simon Peter. This would be in contrast to John's gospel where I have heard that he had scribes translate it for him
It's still up for debate on what Jesus' native tongue was. Check out "Did Jesus Speak Greek?" by Scott Gleaves.
I just started my Masters of Theological Studies this week, and Greek is my first class! What timing! I’m excited to be able to read some of our Lord’s words in the actual language in which He originally spoke them.
Wait, did you see my discussion with YT Muslims yesterday or something 😳. This is exactly what we were talking about.
I think I might have been a part of that
well many people forget that the region used to be hellenized before even jesus came, seem like time to read the book of maccabees.
Mathew would have used Greek in his tax collecting job. Probably Roman too.
*Latin
@@TM_AZ most educated romans knew greek and greek was way more common than latin in the eastern part of the mediterranean
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(comment written before finishing the video). I would argue Jesus was most likely trilingual. He was a rabbi. This is roughly akin to being a traveling evangelist today. He would have not only needed to know how to interact with the people of the various regions he visited but also communicate to them in an effective manner. Traveling with a translator is theoretically possible but likely would have been referenced somewhere in the scriptures.
Also a rabbi is a scholarly position. Jesus would have needed to be able to read and understand the scriptures. While some scrolls may hsve been translated into Aramaic, it seems more likely the strong reverence for tradition in the Jewish culture would lend to the scrolls primarily being written in Hebrew.
Also Hebrew and Aramaic are very similar languages, so it would not be terribly difficult (relatively speaking) to be fluent in both.
Certainly much easier than English and Hebrew, for example.
The same thing with what is written on in John 15:25 verse where Jesus says that that verse was based on a fulfilment written on in the Law of the Hebrews.
Super interesting
Then on in Acts 1:20 verse Peter misquoted Psalms 69:25 verse by repeating it with the word, ("his,") instead of repeating the verse of Psalms 69:25 verse with the word, ("their.")
Sephoris was a large Greek speaking city of Hellenistic Jews about one hour's walk from Nazareth. During Jesus' youth there were enormous construction projects in that city such as Greek amphitheaters and temples. Joseph as a carpenter along with Jesus would have probably found a lot of work there as it was so close to their home. Learning Greek would have been a definite advantage in earning a living. Since Jesus spent some part of his childhood in Egypt, it may be possible he spoke Egyptian, too. And I think his involvement in the religious life in Judea including Jerusalem and the temples he may very well have read and written Hebrew as well.
The best analogue might be Indians having all their own regional languages, but relying DOMINANTLY on English to converse with any other state or foreign states, since it is the lingua Franca. The average Indian is at least bilingual, if he attended school that is.
I just think it makes sense, everyone had to know Greek at the time and since Jesus was coming to save us all, He would speak in the universal language. 9:04 oh, lol like that.
Greek was NOT the universal language of the time. It was only widely spoken in the eastern Mediterranean, and only among the relatively well-educated.
@@baltasarnoreno5973It was the language of the entire mediterranean. Doesnt mean everyone spoke it but it was the closest to an universal language at the time.
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: obviously.
I think that Matthew 16 was more likely originaly in Aramaic given that his usage of "Bar Jona," and given that the rock referred to is an identical subject in terms of the naming of Peter and the metaphor of foundation stone "on this (ie. Peter just named)" originaly Cephas would have been used in both instances wheras the feminine petra may be better for usage in terms of a big foundation stone but innapropriate for a male name, thus the use of the two words Petra and Petros in the translation.
Gee I do believe the Lord could speak any language if he so chose. Though I guess we have to understand that he may have allowed himself to be limited while incarnated, though those limitations don't seem very deep or broad since he could defy gravity and changed material things which defies Newtonian physics.
Heh, I was just arguing with (presumably) a Muslim in TH-cam comments about this. I haven't watched your whole video here yet, so forgive me if you address this, but...
In Mark 7:26, a Syrophoenician woman described as "hellenis" comes to Jesus and speaks with him. That word is defined by BDAG as "Greek in language and culture."
So what language would Jesus have used to have a conversation with a Greek-speaking woman?
Interesting to see this video because I just got Gleaves' book, "Did Jesus Speak Greek?".
Paul spoke at least two languages. Acts 21:37 Paul asked the chiliarch, "Ει εξεστι μοι ειπειν προς σε;" He replied "You know Greek? So then you aren't the Egyptian who ...?" A few verses later he switches to "Hebrew dialect" (which may be Aramaic) to speak to the crowd.
However, growing up in Mersin and attending rabbinical school in Israel, he didn't learn classical Greek. Before he visited Athens, he probably was coached by Timothy in the use of the optative and in Greek literature.
The next thing to know is Luke 4:18 verse which in the Old Testament in Isaiah 61-1 verse it was written in the Greek language of the Septugint but originally it was written on in the Hebrew language of the Tanakh
We know he was raised with Hebrew, we know he spoke Aramaic with Mary Magdalene (see resurrection in John), we know he spoke well and easily to Romans, we know that the apostles spoke Greek and quoted Him in Greek, we know God gave us all the languages after the Tower of Babel and knows all things so that he speaks every language as it has changed over time seems common sense especially with “every man hearing in his own language” in Acts 2.
So yes Jesus spoke and is fluent still today in Greek… Latin… Hebrew… Aramaic… Gaelic… German… Russian… Cantonese… Swahili… English… Japanese… Spanish… Portuguese…Italian… whatever near English is being spoken by Boomhaur’s in the American southeast… IT technician…Gen Z’eese… and even Welsh
I'd say it was a 3.5 lingual context - because Hebrew also was used, albeit in diminished capacity outside religion.
The book of Acts was found written in the Greek language but in Acts 21:40 and Acts 22:2 verses it is written on by the writer of the book of Acts that Apostle Paul spoke in the Aramaic language or the Hebrew language
Same thing with Peter on in the book of Acts 1:20 verse misquoting Psalm's 69:25 verse
I think the conversation with Nicidemus also works better in Greek.
Jesus was raised in Nazareth, a town nestled among the Decapolis, ten Greek speaking cities. As a young laborer He was probably pressed into service to help expand Caesaria.
Nazareth is in Galilee, not the Decapolis. The Decapolis was east of the Jordan River. Even so, there were many foreigners in Galilee, making knowledge of Greek a necessity.
@@mysotiras21 That's right. Thanks for correcting me. Wasn't one city of Decapolis west of the Jordon?
@@mysotiras21 Scythopolis wasn't far from Nazareth.
Hey IP, I was wondering if you had a response to this series of videos done by Philosophy Engineered which critiqued Christianity.
Very likely that Jesus understood Greek. It was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire. Had Jesus not known Greek, he could not have conversed with Romans or the people of the Decapolis, none of whom were likely to have known Aramaic.
I love languages and I love Jesus, so this is automatically a great video :)
Hey i came across a video saying that lord means baal and i wanted to ask you if you could make a video about this. I would really appreciate it.
In most bilingual areas today, people who are equally proficient in two languages will only use the pure form of either in formal speech, whereas in colloquial speech they engage in “code switching”, freely switching between the two languages and using vocabulary from either as they see fit. Christ and the Apostles undoubtedly would have done this, but New Testament scholars seem to live in a world where bilingual people never mix languages and only speak one or the other in its “pure” form.
Tekton doesn't mean just "Carpenter", it means more like day laborer. It's likely that both Jesus and Joseph worked as day laborers or tinkerers in Greco-Roman and Syrophoenician cities in the region. To do so, they would have had to been conversant in Koine Greek.
It's very likely Jesus exchange with the Roman centurion and Syrophoenician woman, for instance, would have been in Greek, not Aramaic.
YES.....he spoke to several people in their native language and dialects too
And he spoke in his language and others in other languages somehow understood him. Same for apostles after Holy Spirit.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT spread Greek language ane culture as far as Egypt and India
We Greek Orthodox ☦️🇬🇷 use the Greek Old Testament witch was translated in the Greek Egyptian city Alexandria a couple centuries before Christ and it is the old testament the first Christians used
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