does it matter to any contemporary christian dispute if Jesus et al spoke Greek or Aramaic? (Orthodox, protestant)

[brooklynborndad]

In some other forum some dude (a self proclaimed "orthodox" roman catholic who favors the latin mass) started arguing with some liberal catholic who seems to like the vernacular mass, and who said well the first mass was in Aramaic anyway that Jesus and the apostles spoke Greek. Now I'm a Jew and don't really have a dog in the fight of what language the RC say mass in, or even what language Jesus shot the breeze in - but the question of the typical language of ordinary Jews of the time has come into it. And that historical question DOES matter to me. He keeps implying (the region was multilingual, there are ossuary inscriptions in Greek, etc) that Greek usage was wide among Jews at the time. My strong sense is that Greek usage in Judea was common among gentiles, and among the Jewish elite, but not among ordinary Jews - that Aramaic (like other non greek languages in the greek east) hung on for quite some time (in some cases till displacement by Arabic) - this from jewish texts (the targums, the Jerusalem Talmud, etc) and even from the NT references to Aramaic.

Googling I note this is a pretty emotional dispute among some christians - but Im not sure why? Is it a catholic protestant thing related to the word "petrus" - doesnt seem to be. Im not sure if there is some other theological dispute connected to it, or if its just important to christians cause it involves their image of jesus.

[hljc]

Not it does not matter if Jesus spoken any one or other languages, as God knows all the languages of the world ... See if people have tolerances for Classicism ideas it may be a issue, but people who do not think Classicism is important to God then which they are right

[pcamps]

I thought he spoke King James English ?, well all the meetings I sat in and someone prophecied , it was usually "If thou would returneth unto me, I will maketh thou to knoweth my ways, thoust knoweth the way to me, for I have shown thee.