what was the language that Jesus spoke with?

Question

what was the original language of Jesus, the language that he spoke with.

Answer 1

Aramaic, and unfortunately no one of us, has Original Scripture revealed on Him.

God Almighty revealed His words in the language of people of that time. At the time of Prophet Moses, in that area people were using Hebrew, By the time Prophet Jesus common language became Aramaice, Later Aramaice also became almost obselete dead language.

Hebrew, Aramaice , and Arabic are sister languages.

May God Almighty give us wisdom and tools to find right and true path, Amen.

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Answer 2

On this question there is considerable difference of opinion among scholars. However, concerning languages used in Palestine when Jesus Christ was on earth, Professor G. Ernest Wright states: “Various languages were undoubtedly to be heard on the streets of the major cities. Greek and Aramaic were evidently the common tongues, and most of the urban peoples could probably understand both even in such ‘modern’ or ‘western’ cities as Caesarea and Samaria where Greek was the more common. Roman soldiers and officials might be heard conversing in Latin, while orthodox Jews may well have spoken a late variety of Hebrew with one another, a language that we know to have been neither classical Hebrew nor Aramaic, despite its similarities to both.” Commenting further, on the language spoken by Jesus Christ, Professor Wright says: “The language spoken by Jesus has been much debated. We have no certain way of knowing whether he could speak Greek or Latin, but in his teaching ministry he regularly used either Aramaic or the highly Aramaized popular Hebrew. When Paul addressed the mob in the Temple, it is said that he spoke Hebrew (Acts 21:40). Scholars generally have taken this to mean Aramaic, but it is quite possible that a popular Hebrew was then the common tongue among the Jews.”—Biblical Archaeology, 1963, p. 243.

Answer 3

I agree with Paulywog; Aramaic and koine Greek (common Greek, as opposed to Classical Greek) were the dominant common languages during Jesus' time, but it is more than likely that Jesus spoke Aramaic.

The only form of Hebrew that was spoken by Jesus' time was Biblical Hebrew, and the common people could not speak or understand Biblical Hebrew.

Jesus, wanting to reach and teach the common folk would have communicated in a language they could easily understand.

Answer 4

Aramaic

Answer 5

Hebrew, Aramaic, and probably Greek. But, I suspect he could speak in whatever language would get his point across.

I would also say that he spoke in the tongue of angels since he was around at the beginning.

Answer 6

Aramaic

Answer 7

He didn't speak WITH any language. The language he spoke in was Aramaic.

Answer 8

Probably Aramaic

Answer 9

Aramaic.

Answer 10

Aramaic.