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Originally Posted by granpa
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Professor G. Ernest Wright states: “Various languages were undoubtedly to be heard on the streets of the major cities. Greek and Aramaic were evidently the common tongues, and most of the urban peoples could probably understand both even in such ‘modern’ or ‘western’ cities as Caesarea and Samaria where Greek was the more common. Roman soldiers and officials might be heard conversing in Latin, while orthodox Jews may well have spoken a late variety of Hebrew with one another, a language that we know to have been neither classical Hebrew nor Aramaic, despite its similarities to both.”
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Biblical Archaeology, 1962, p. 243.
While I know their is no concrete answer if Jesus ever spoke a Greek word. Greek was a common language. Many people spoke it. To say that Jesus wouldn't be able to speak to a Roman solider that might have only understood Greek or understand them would be strange. Seeing that Jesus was the Son of God able to raise people from the dead and heal every illness, but unable to speak a commonly spoken language? I find that unbelievable. So through discernment of faith, I lean toward that Jesus could've spoken in any language he wished.
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