What is the language that was spoken by Christ ?

Answer 1

Jesus probably spoke Aramaic and a little Street Greek.

Interestingly Allah ( Ilah ) is the name for God in Aramaic the language that Jesus spoke.

Jesus never prayed to God or even referred to God using any word but Allah.

People who say that Allah is a false God do not know what they are talking about, and they are most certainly not following the true teachings of Jesus.

Love and blessings.
don

Answer 2

Aramaic was the spoken language. The language of worship was-and is-Hebrew.

Answer 3

Hmm... I know the New Testament is written in greek, but I believe Christ spoke a different language, but I can't remember which one.

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There ya go! *applauds people above me*
Aramaic it is. I couldn't think of the word.

Answer 4

Aramaic - it's a dead language now but you can hear it in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ - I don't care for the movie (or him) but he did try to make it historically accurate by having it in the true language with english subtitles

Answer 5

Either Aramaic or Greek as they were the dominant languages of the day, like english is today!

Answer 6

Jesus' primary language would have been Aramaic, the common language of Galilee during his lifetime. Aramaic was an ancient Semitic language related to Hebrew much as French is related to Spanish or as Cantonese is related to Mandarin. Though Jews had once spoken Hebrew as their primary language, this changed when Israel was overthrown, first by the Assyrians in the eighth-century B.C. and then by the Babylonians in the sixth-century B.C. By the time of Jesus, Aramaic was so common among Jews that the reading of the Hebrew Scripture in the synagogue was accompanied by translation into Aramaic.

In addition to the strong circumstantial evidence that Jesus spoke Aramaic as his primary language, there is direct evidence of this in the New Testament gospels. Though these gospels were written originally in Greek, at several points Jesus' words are given in Aramaic, for example: "Talitha cumi" (Mark 5:41, "Little girl, I say to you, arise!"); "Abba" (Mark 14:36. "Father"); "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" (Mark 15:34, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"). In these cases the actual Aramaic words of Jesus were remembered and passed on even by Greek-speaking Christians.

These passages and others from the gospels, combined with the predominance of Aramaic in Palestine in the first century A.D., make it virtually certain that Aramaic was Jesus' primary language. I don't know of any serious scholar who doubts this conclusion.

But did Jesus speak Hebrew in addition to Aramaic?

We have very little direct evidence by which to answer this question. However, in Jesus' day, upper class Jews did learn Hebrew as a literary and liturgical language. Many others, even those from the lower classes - like carpenters, for example -- learned Hebrew so that they might be able to read and understand the Torah (the Mosaic Law) in its original language.

One text from the biblical gospels strongly suggests that Jesus had learned Hebrew as a second language. In Luke 4 Jesus went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, where he read a section from the prophet Isaiah (Luke 4:16-19). It is almost certain that this scroll was written in Hebrew, not Aramaic.

The only other passages from the gospels that might indicate Jesus' knowledge of Hebrew are those in which he debates theology with learned Jewish teachers (scribes and Pharisees). These debates generally occurred in Hebrew, much as Catholic theologians have used Latin for scholarly debates at the Vatican, even into modern times.

Did Jesus know Hebrew as a second language? Though we cannot prove this beyond the shadow of a doubt, it seems most likely that the answer is "yes."

Peace.

Answer 7

Aramaic for daily speech, Hebrew for reading the Torah, and probably enough Koine Greek and Latin to make Himself understood when in Jerusalem at Passover.

Answer 8

The answer is Hebrew, this was the language that was spoken originally by God.

Answer 9

He spoke the local language, Aramaic.

Answer 10

Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek.