What language did Jesus speak?

Answer 1

The common language was Aramaic during the time of Jesus of Nazareth. The language of the synagogue was Hebrew and the language of the traders was Greek. Few spoke Latin.

Answer 2

What language did Jesus speak?

It is widely believed that Jesus' everyday language was Aramaic. Jews learned this language during their Babylonian captivity. Ancient inscriptions in Aramaic have been found over a vast area extending from Egypt to China.

The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible tells us, “The dialect daily spoken by Jesus and the disciples was Galilean Aramaic, which, as is noted in Matt. 26:73, was recognizably different from the southern dialect spoken in and around Jerusalem. It was in this same Galilean dialect that the Aramaic of the Palestinian Talmud and the older Midrashim was written'' (article “Aramaic,” Vol. 1, p. 186).

Some scholars claim that Greek was the common language of Jesus’ day. It hard to be absolutely certain about what was the common tongue of an ancient civilization. The writings that archeologists find may not represent what was normally used by the common man.

Answer 3

Jesus apparently grew up in Nazareth, which was a graveyard at the time a few miles from a roman city Caesarea. The Bible doesn't even mention this city but if Jesus did in fact grow up near it he might have spoken Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Being the Son of God and all, we could just assume that he could speak all languages if he had wanted to.

Answer 4

Jesus spoke Aramaic in Galilee
In the light of this data, the hypothesis -- often aired in the last two centuries -- that Jesus spoke Greek or Latin is impossible to accept. Or better yet, anyone who would wish to hold such an hypothesis must prove it. Specialists of the Aramaic language have analyzed closely this topic, and had come to distinguish various Aramaic dialects in the contemporary Palestine of Jesus as testified to by inscriptions thus discovered. B Based on this data, they are able to distinguish seven dialects that were shared by seven different localities in this small region: 1. Aramaic of Judea. 2. Aramaic of Southern Judea. 3. Aramaic of Samaria. 4. Aramaic of Galilee. 5. Aramaic from beyond Jordan. 6. Aramaic from Damascus. Aramaic spoken in the Orontes River Basin of Syria.

It is a question about a relatively restricted region that would now embrace the actual area of the present State of Israel, and parts of the bordering countries of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Also if this distinction seems a bit artificial, nevertheless it becomes quite clear that there were local differences in the Aramaic language. These changes did not affect the mutual comprehension of the inhabitants of the different localities (realizing that the distance between these various localities was small and contact was frequent).

Jesus certainly spoke the Aramaic dialect of Galilee, but His words were “Jerusalem-ized”, so to speak, for the Early Church, and transmitted to us in the dialect of Jerusalem. It is well recorded that the difference between the Jerusalem and Galilee dialects was small and, all things considered, quite negligible.

A theme that impassions students has been the reconstruction of the “Our Father.” It is thought that Jesus had taught this prayer in his own language, and therefore in Aramaic. Nonetheless, in the Gospels, it is the Greek version that remained for Christians of Gentile origin as well as the Primitive Church of Jerusalem. Though the Church of Jerusalem, which spoke Aramaic, continued to recite it in the original language without feeling any necessity to put it down in writing.

These brief considerations show us that Jesus, Son of His times and His earth, did not disdain to immerse Himself in the language and culture in which He lived.

Answer 5

He spoke ancient Aramaic. Aramaic was the international language of the ancient Near East. It is a Semitic language, and it is closely related to Hebrew. It is the language in which most of the Talmud is written. The Jews of Babylon spoke Aramaic and even when they returned to the land of Israel, they continued to speak Aramaic.

Answer 6

Aramaic. Eloi Eloi Lema Sabacthani

Answer 7

As well as Hebrew, Aramaic, some Greek and Latin (language of the Roman Empire, which Israel was occupied by), he might have known a little Sanskrit as well; it being fairly popular among asian moral teachers at the time.

Answer 8

Aramaic. Although Ma. Ferguson, one time Governor of some state in the USA, when deciding against the teaching of foreign languages in school, famously declared 'If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for us.'
Checked - the state was Texas - now why doesn't that surprise me?

Answer 9

Aramaic

Answer 10

Aramaic