What Languages Did Jesus Speak? | Historical Jesus

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We still are not entirely sure which language or languages Jesus spoke in first-century Judea and Galilee. Remember, Hebrew was the ancestral language of the Jews and the Torah, Aramaic was the common language, and Greek was the language of civilization. In this video, we'll take a look at the evidence from the Bible and external evidence to determine what languages Jesus spoke.

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However, one can ask: how widespread was Greek in first-century Palestine? The use
of Greek differed from region to region and from one social class to another. However,
these differences were not significant since even the well-known Jewish historian,
Josephus, did not have a good grasp of the Greek language despite using it when he
wrote about the history of the Jews.

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[stanislausklim]

In high school, my theology teacher said that Jesus was probably trilingual. I remember thinking that He was probably "omnilingual" if that's a word, being that He's God.

[mynameisjesuschrist]

My first language is Aramaic. I also speak Hebrew and Greek.

[ibatan]

WRONG. ARAMAIC is the mother language of all Middle-Eastern languages such as Hebrew, Assyrian, Chaldean, arabic, Phoenician, and some other languages. The rest have started as accents of the Aramaic language as spoken by different people. The alphabet is the same, the grammar is the same, the vocabulary is somewhat different, the pronunciation of the words is different from language to another. For example, the English American is different from the British English, the Irish English, the Scottish English, the Gaelic English, the Southern-American English, the Texan English, the Jamaican English, the Australian English, ... They all use the same grammar and alphabet but different vocabulary/vocal pronunciations.
A person who understands the Aramaic can understand (with little difficulty) the Hebrew, the arabic, the Assyrian (or Syriac), the Chaldean pronunciations of the phrases.
Besides, our ONLY Lord/God Jesus Christ, is capable to speak any language/accent/dialect of any language on Earth. Every year, HE communicates with thousands of different people around Earth in their own languages, dialects and accents. This is a FACT.

[angeliquaserenity]

Only one thing: The fact Jesus may not had a formal education in Greek does not disprove that Jesus could've had a practical education in Greek. Other than that: Great video!!! :D <3

[davidbeskhyroun]

These videos are really great man i don’t know why they don’t get more views

[nannimanfrin]

i didn't find the example of the "debts" translation as compelling. also in these pro-aramaic vids, it's always somehow skipped that Aram is Persia and aramaics would be Persians. the assertions in the video are not backed up with sources. quoting scholars without going to their sources, either, doesn't help.
i'm coming from CI material which makes broader claims for Greek. it seems obvious to me that the original New Testament (the Received Text) has always been in Greek (with Hebrew and maybe Aramaic loan words hellenized and mixed in). this makes more sense to me as Greek was the official language of the Roman empire until around 300 AD (!) and Palestine had long been a province that was conquered by Macabees (Greek speakers, Greek calendar promoters etc).
this is my understanding up to this point.

[josephpendleton]

Jesus Christ's language was only Aramaic (also known as Syriac) and used Aramaic Old Testament. Not Greek or Hebrew. Aramaic New Testament (Aramaic Eastern Peshitta) is actually the original New Testament which was later translated into Greek by Greek scholars who knew Greek and Aramaic. Aramaic Old Testament available today is known as Aramaic Peshitta Tanakh. Josephus points out his nation didn't encourage the learning of Greek and Hebrews knowing Greek were extremely rare in first century AD (Antiquities of Judeans XX, XI).

Mattathias, his 5 sons, and their Hebrew supporters defeated Seleucid Dynasty and kicked Hellenism out of Israel which we read in 1 Maccabees. They also were in alliances with the Romans and the Spartans who opposed Seleucids (1 Maccabees 8, 1 Maccabees 12, 1 Maccabees 14). In 142 BC, Israel became fully independent under Simon (the brother of Judas Maccabeus) and it was Government of Israel. Government of Israel became Kingdom of Israel in 104 BC. Starting from 63 BC, Kingdom of Israel became semi-autonomous with Romans when the Romans (under Pompey) conquered Jerusalem in support of Hyrcanus II and threw out Hyrcanus II's younger brother Aristobulus II who was in power.

Fourth Kingdom in Book of Daniel was Kingdom of Israel which was destroyed in fire in 70 AD (Daniel 2, Daniel 7 verses 11, 23).

Aramaic completely replaced Old Hebrew as the language of Hebrews during Babylonian Captivity. Hebrew was revived only during Bar Kokhba revolt (132 AD to 135 AD) by False Messiah Simon Bar Kokhba as part of his false messianic idealogy. This Hebrew is called Mishnaic Hebrew which evolved and later became Masoretic Hebrew. Masoretic Hebrew was used to write Hebrew Old Testament (also known as Hebrew Masoretic Text) which was written several centuries after Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, many people mistakenly calls Masoretic Hebrew as Biblical Hebrew.

I also covered many details at my posts at quora under my name.

Many verses in Greek New Testament added Greek which is not in Aramaic New Testament (Aramaic Eastern Peshitta).

Beqel dama is an error. In Aramaic, it is "Haqal Dama" (also known as Khqel Dama). "Dama" is "Blood" and "Haqal" is "Field".

[jacquesferreira]

I believe there was a reason the inscription on the cross was in these 3 languages:

Luk 23:38  And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

[vurleegrevory]

Thank you for your teaching I would like to learn the language God bless you

[Allyourbase]

Technically Jesus could probably speak every language…..

[Heaven-Born]

Every heard of George Lamsa and Rocco Errico and the Aramaic Translations? What do you think about their books and translations?

[MayTheLORDGODblessus]

First of all, Yeshua is the SON OF GOD/MESSIAH/The Lord and Savior. He knows ALL of the languages, spoken or just by thoughts. This should not be a question.

[lizayoukhana]

Proud to speak my lord's language Aramaic.

[deehart]

Jesus could speak any language he needed to speak

[ellisanderson]

very interesting, if anything its changed how i read the bible. "Spoken in their language" - of course!! this implies its different the one you're speaking now!

[plkclor]

Well there is still Aramaic spoken in middle east so that shows the language was spoken continuesly through out history. Not Greek and Hebrew in the levant

[fruitful]

In the book of John the gospel 19:19, Pilot wrote in Hebrew, Latin and Greek the title on the plaque above the cross. Saying that Hebrew was his native language he spoke.. Yeshua talked to the Romans, and to Pilot, as they made requests from him to heal them and their families. Pilot knew him and watched him as told in the Acta Pilot the letter to Cesar about Yeshua. When Joseph of Arimathea, Yeshua's uncle, and Pilot wept for him, on the steps where he was whipped in front of the Sanhedrin and others. The title on the plaque says in Hebrew, Yeshua of Nazareth King of the Jews, on the cross.

[isaacnewton]

You should make a video talking about why the New testament is writing in Greek

[vasanthakumar]

Jesus as a Jew certainly spoke any one of the Semitic languages either Aramaic or Hebrew. He also learnt other languages due to contact with many people who have different languages like Arabic too.

[MrELS]

Besides talking to many gentiles in the gospels, Jesus lived sometime in Egypt, which spoke largely Greek