[goat granny]

Your right that there is nothing wrong with looking up things in the bible...I prefer to look up things I wonder about and not things everyone else thinks. Question for you. Did Jesus speak Hebrew?...Were Pauls letters in Hebrew?

[what's up]

Did Jesus speak Hebrew?...Were Pauls letters in Hebrew?

Jesus probably spoke Hebrew at times but likely his daily discourse was Aramaic.

Paul's letters were likely in Greek.

Genesis and likely most if not all of the Old Testament prevailed through the centuries in Hebrew until the Greeks translated it.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Did Jesus speak Hebrew?...Were Pauls letters in Hebrew?"

He must have, but then Christ seems to have been able to speak several of the languages that were spoken in the region. If I recall correctly, seriac(?) was the local language.

Jesus was also "unlearned" meaning uneducated, no formal education, yet he was able to read the Hebrew transcripts in the temple, which shocked the pharisee's. I don't know if Pauls letters were in Hebrew, but all the gospels books were written in greek except one if that helps.

[OneVike]

Jesus was God, I guess since God spoke to Moses and Moses wrote the first five books in Hebrew, He probably communicated to him in Hebrew.

So, to answer the question you really wanted to know, Yes Jesus could speak in Hebrew, which he might have been doing when he was transfigured on the mountain in the cloud with Moses and Elijah. I say Hebrew because until Christ was crucified and raised from the dead no one from before then would have been taken up yet.

Now for the answer to the question you did asked, Jesus probably only spoke in the language the Jews spoke in because He came for the Jews first. That would have been Koinonia Greek or Aramaic, but He could have spoken Latin as the Romans did also.

Your point for asking?

[Nathan Zachary]

Then there's this: "Who does he think his message is for?...With his 'sav lasav, sav lasav, kav lakav, kav lakav, zeer sham, zeer sham!' Yes, certainly with stammering lips and in a foreign language, he will talk to this nation, he who once told them: Here is rest... But they would not listen."

"That is why the Lord now says: 'sav lasav, sav lasav, kav lakav, kav lakav, zeer sham, zeer sham', so that when they walk they may fall over backwards and be broken, snared and made captive." (Is.28:10-13).

Isiah prophesied that he would speak Greek to his people.