[editor-surveyor]

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Well, now the hard evidence is there and cannot be denied.

There was no Greek spoken in Judea.

[Wallace T.]

Greek was the common language of the eastern Mediterranean. Since the Macedonian conquest of the Middle East, Koine Greek was the language of trade and the Greek/Macedonian and Roman rulers of what is now Israel. Think about the British colonies in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The common people spoke the indigenous languages, but the courts and trade were conducted in Greek. No doubt the Pharisees and the apostle Luke were conversant in Greek. Luke was a Gentile and likely spoke Greek, as did the apostle Paul. The Pharisees would have conversed with Pilate and Herod in Greek. Jesus preached entirely in Aramaic, of course. The canonical Gospels do not indicate that he ever spoke Greek. However, many Old Testament citations in the New Testament were from the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. So Greek would have had the same status in Judea as English had in India or Kenya.