When I finish with my historical survey, I’ll offer some further reasons why it matters to us what language(s) Jesus spoke. This makes good sense in English, because “kingdom” signifies a place ruled by a king, and “heaven” is the place we believers go after we die, the place where God rules (Matt 6:10). The Aramaic word form šəḇaqtanī is based on the verb šǝḇaq/ šāḇaq, 'to allow, to permit, to forgive, and to forsake', with the perfect tense ending -t (2nd person singular: 'you'), and the object suffix -anī (1st person singular: 'me'). Similar to Latin today, Hebrew was the chosen language for religious scholars and the holy scriptures, including the Bible (although some of the Old Testament was written in Aramaic). For a right understanding of Jesus in this case, it doesn’t matter which ancient language he was speaking.

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Still, the sense of the story suggests more immediate communication, which would have been in Greek. Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God. If you’ve been following this series on the language(s) of Jesus, you know that I have argued that Jesus spoke Aramaic as his first language and in a substantial chunk of his teaching. Many stories in the Gospel also support the theory that Jesus could use Hebrew when it suited his purposes. It’s most likely that in Galilee, where Jesus was raised and where he began his ministry, Aramaic was the most common language of the people, though many would have been able to understand Hebrew and to get along in Greek as well.

During and before the time of Jesus, there wasn’t just one version of Aramaic being used in Judea and beyond. C. Under his rule, and under the rule of those who followed him (the Ptolemies and the Seleucids), Greek was the language of government and commerce.

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In the last couple of years, I have run into a new reason why some people dispute the notion that Jesus spoke Aramaic. Jesus ( / ˈ dʒ iː z ə s/) is a masculine given name derived from Iēsous ( Ἰησοῦς; Iesus in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew and Aramaic name Yeshua ( ישוע). This is usually considered to be an originally Aramaic word borrowed into Rabbinic Hebrew, [33] but its occurrence in late Biblical Hebrew and, reportedly, in 4th century Punic may indicate that it had a more general "common Semitic background". Drawing from my background in New Testament studies, I tried to explain in non-technical terms the issues associated with the language or languages spoken by Jesus.Though a few scholars argue that Matthew first appeared in Hebrew or Aramaic, most believe that the four biblical Gospels were composed in Greek. Note: You may download this resource at no cost, for personal use or for use in a Christian ministry, as long as you are not publishing it for sale. J. Thackeray (who translated Josephus' Jewish Wars from Greek into English) also points out, "We learn from the proem that the Greek text was not the first draft of the work.