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Greek speek3/11/2023 ![]() Jews in Judea & Galilee would have regularly encountered Hebrew as they worshipped and learned in the synagogue. Prior to the destruction of the temple, the Tanakh was not written in Aramaic (see my post here) the scrolls in the synagogues were Hebrew documents. The religious language of the Jews, and the language of the synagogue. Jesus could have spoken Aramaic to Pilate, but the conversation would have had to have been conducted through an interpreter. It is unlikely that he spoke Aramaic, nor would he as a Roman official have felt it his duty to learn the common-tongue of the people he ruled. Pilate was a transplant to the region and there is no evidence he ever spent any significant time in the far east. The familial language of many Jews as a result of the Babylonian captivity, Jesus undoubtedly spoke Aramaic (and several of his statements, in Aramaic, are preserved in the Gospels). This gives a high probability to their conversation taking place in Greek. Pilate & Jesus both spoke Greek, and Pilate would have expected to communicate with his subjects in Greek. Jesus' time spent in the Greek-speaking cities of the Decapolis.The prevalence of Greek speaking Jews in the book of Acts (including Galileans with Greek names).My video here: What Languages Did Jesus Speak?.Pilate, an educated man and a member of the equestrian order ( source), would most definitely have spoken Greek.įor the evidence that Jesus would have spoken Greek, see: Greek was the language Rome used to communicate (in the east) with the people it subjugated ( source). ![]() The prevalence of a common language was a very effective tool for Roman governance. The lingua-franca of the Eastern Roman empire, it had been widespread in the East since the time of Alexander. Let us consider the 4 most prominently spoken languages in that region at that time. ![]()
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