2022.12.07 Yahooshua was a Judean {Jew} and spoke Aramaic and Hebrew
Created by James on 12/24/2022 1:37:11 PM

I have long understood that Yahooshua {Jesus} was a Judean {Jew} (from the area of Israel known as Judea) and spoke Aramaic and Hebrew and that the language of Matthew, Mark and John was Aramaic such that the respective Gospels were written in Aramaic or Hebrew but I have never substantiated this.  The extracts below are provided to substantiate this fact.

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2022.12.07 Yahooshua was a Judean {Jew} and spoke Aramaic and Hebrew

 

 

 

I have long understood that Yahooshua {Jesus} was a Judean {Jew} (from the area of Israel known as Judea) and spoke Aramaic and Hebrew and that the language of Matthew, Mark and John was Aramaic such that the respective Gospels were written in Aramaic or Hebrew but I have never substantiated this.  The extracts below are provided to substantiate this fact.

 

 

Google “what language did jesus speak” in quotes 13,300 results.

“Jesus likely understood Hebrew, though his everyday life would have been conducted in Aramaic. Of the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark records Jesus using Aramaic terms and phrases, while in Luke 4:16, he was shown reading Hebrew from the Bible at a synagogue.”

 

 

Wikipedia “Language of Jesus” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus

“There exists a consensus among scholars that the language of Jesus and his  disciples was Aramaic.^[1][2] This is generally agreed upon by historians. Aramaic was the common language of Judea in the first century AD. The villages of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee, where Jesus spent most of his time, were Aramaic-speaking communities.^[3] Jesus likely spoke a Galilean variant of the language, distinguishable from that of Jerusalem.^[4] It is also likely that Jesus knew enough Koine Greek to converse with those not native to Judea, and it is reasonable to assume that Jesus was well versed in Hebrew for religious purposes.^[5][6][7]

 

 

History.com “What Language Did Jesus Speak?” at https://www.history.com/news/jesus-spoke-language#:~:text=Jesus%20likely%20understood%20Hebrew%2C%20though,the%20Bible%20at%20a%20synagogue.

 

“While scholars generally agree that Jesus was a real historical figure, debate has long raged around the events and circumstances of his life as depicted in the Bible.

 

"In particular, there’s been some confusion in the past about what language Jesus spoke, as a man living during the first century A.D. in the kingdom of Judea, located in what is now the southern part of Palestine.

 

The issue of Jesus’ preferred language memorably came up in 2014, during a public meeting in Jerusalem between Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and Pope Francis, during the pontiff’s tour of the Holy Land. Speaking to the pope through an interpreter, Netanyahu declared: “Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew.”

 

Francis broke in, correcting him. “Aramaic,” he said, referring to the ancient Semitic language, now mostly extinct, that originated among a people known as the Aramaeans around the late 11th century B.C. As reported in the Washington Post, a version of it is still spoken today by communities of Chaldean Christians in Iraq and Syria.

 

“News of the linguistic disagreement made headlines, but it turns out both the prime minister and the Pope were likely right.

“Most religious scholars and historians agree with Pope Francis that the historical Jesus principally spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic. Through trade, invasions and conquest, the Aramaic language had spread far afield by the 7th century B.C., and would become the lingua franca in much of the Middle East. “

 

In the first century A.D., it would have been the most commonly used language among ordinary Jewish people, as opposed to the religious elite, and the most likely to have been used among Jesus and his disciples in their daily lives.

 

“But Netanyahu was technically correct as well. Hebrew, which is from the same linguistic family as Aramaic, was also in common use in Jesus’ day. Similar to Latin today, Hebrew was the chosen language for religious scholars and the holy scriptures, including the Bible (although some of the Old Testament was written in Aramaic).

 

“Jesus likely understood Hebrew, though his everyday life would have been conducted in Aramaic. Of the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark records Jesus using Aramaic terms and phrases, while in Luke 4:16, he was shown reading Hebrew from the Bible at a synagogue.

 

“In addition to Aramaic and Hebrew, Greek and Latin were also common in Jesus’ time. After Alexander the Great’s conquest of Mesopotamia and the rest of the Persian Empire in the fourth century B.C., Greek supplanted other tongues as the official language in much of the region. In the first century A.D., Judea was part of the eastern Roman Empire, which embraced Greek as its lingua franca and reserved Latin for legal and military matters.

 

“As Jonathan Katz, a Classics lecturer at Oxford University, told BBC News, Jesus probably didn’t know more than a few words in Latin. He probably knew more Greek, but it was not a common language among the people he spoke to regularly, and he was likely not too proficient. He definitely did not speak Arabic, another Semitic language that did not arrive in Palestine until after the first century A.D.

 

“So while Jesus’ most common spoken language was Aramaic, he was familiar with—if not fluent, or even proficient in—three or four different tongues. As with many multilingual people, which one he spoke probably depended on the context of his words, as well as the audience he was speaking to at the time. 

 

 

Further on Google “What three languages did Jesus speak?”

“It is probable that Jesus knew the three common languages of the cultures around him during his life on Earth: Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. From this knowledge, it is likely that Jesus spoke in whichever of the three languages was most suitable to the people He was communicating with.”

 

“That said, Father has shown me clearly that most of the New Testament was written in Aramaic and Hebrew and subsequently translated to Greek in an uncontrolled manner such that there are doctrinal errors in these translations.  Remember that both the Jews and the Romans were persecuting the early Christian Believers and thus the move to Greece occurred.

 

 

Christianity.com “What Language Did Jesus Speak?”

“The general consensus is that Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic while Hebrew and Greek were also commonly used throughout the Middle East and beyond during that time. Discover the usage and influence of different languages spoken by Jesus and the cultures around him through his life on Earth.

“The Language of Jesus

“Aramaic

“It is the general consensus of religious scholars and historians that Jesus and his disciples primarily spoke Aramaic, the traditional language of Judea in the first century AD. Their Aramaic was most likely a Galilean accent distinct from that of Jerusalem. Jesus spent most of his time in the communities of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee, which were Aramaic-speaking villages. The Gospels support this view showing Jesus using various Aramaic terms: talitha koum (Mark 5:41); ephphatha (Mark 7:34); eloi eloi lama sabachthani (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34); abba (Mark 14:36). Historians, scientists, and social anthropologists largely agree that Aramaic was the prevalent language in Israel during Jesus’ time. Aramaic was very similar to Hebrew, but with many terms and expressions that were acquired from other languages and cultures, notably Babylonian.

 

“Hebrew and Greek

“Hebrew was used mostly by the scribes, teachers of the law, Pharisees, and Sadducees, the “religious elite.” Hebrew was likely spoken and read in the synagogues, so most people were likely capable to speak and understand some Hebrew. Because Greek was the language of the Romans, who ruled over Israel during Jesus’ time, Greek was the language of the political class and anyone who wanted to do commerce with the Romans. Being able to speak Greek was a very useful skill as it was the universal language at that time. However, some protested to use Greek because of hostility toward their Roman oppressors.

 

“According to Dead Sea Scrolls archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Aramaic was the language of Hebrews until Simon Bar Kokhba's revolt. Yadin recognized the change from Aramaic to Hebrew in the texts he studied, which had been recorded during the period of the Bar Kokhba revolt. In his book, Yigael Yadin notes, "It is interesting that the earlier documents are written in Aramaic while the later ones are in Hebrew. Possibly the change was made by a special decree of Bar Kokhba who wanted to restore Hebrew as the official language of the state."

 

“It is probable that Jesus knew the three common languages of the cultures around him during his life on Earth: Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek. From this knowledge, it is likely that Jesus spoke in whichever of the three languages was most suitable to the people He was communicating with.”

 

 

Conclusion

There is much more on the Internet if you are interested.  The KEY point here is that there is every reason to believe that Yahooshua spoke Aramaic predominantly and understood Hebrew with Greek as an option under certain circumstances.  Likewise Matthew, Mark and John ALSO primarily spoke and wrote Aramaic and the so-called “New Testament” was written in Aramaic and subsequently copied and translated and then further copied by people who had no formal disciplines in copying and translating and who put their own “spin” on their transcripts and translations.

 

The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts were written by Luke who was a Greek Physician whose reports were second hand.

 

One report that I encountered many years ago indicated that there were of the order of 1,250 discrepancies between the different source manuscripts some of which had significant doctrinal impacts.  The most significant of these related to “Father, son and Holy Spirit” specifically Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” which is the ONLY explicit reference to the Trinity which is a pagan concept and inaccurate since the Set-Apart {Holy} Spirit of Yah is part of Yah and there is NO distinction, we should worship Yah alone.

 

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May Father bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and grant you His Peace

 

May Yah judge me severely and correct me harshly and show me the level of my present deception and how to correct it with regard to everything that I write and publish

 

Warm regards and blessings,

 

 

 

Dr James A Robertson

Spokesman and Emissary of Yah

End Time Issue Ministries

24 December 2022

 

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If you die as an Unbeliever your spirit will live for a very long time as a disembodied Ancestor Spirit or Demon -- the Creator has said regarding Unbelievers "why would I want someone to spend Eternity with me when they do NOT Believe I exist?”

 

If you die as a Believer without any form of relationship with the Creator you will end up in the Outer Darkness – a cold, black, terrible place with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth (your teeth) – the trash heap of Heaven – Father has said concerning such Believers “why would I want someone to be close to me in Heaven, which inherently means I will give them great prestige and authority, if they do NOT have a deep personal relationship with me and have NOT proven to me that they can be trusted in this life?”

 

In stark contrast -- IF you make a real effort to seek relationship with the Almighty the rewards in the Life to Come are HUGE – a glorious resurrected body, great prestige, great authority and a permanent close relationship with the Creator AND with Yahooshua {who you may mistakenly know as Jesus}

 

To put this all in context the Almighty has said "I created Human beings, this planet and this universe for men and women to be my Friends, my companions, to explore and learn and develop together, my greatest grief is that almost NO person understands this let alone seeks such a relationship with me!“

 

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The biggest error crippling Mature Anointed Believers see https://www.ETI-Ministries.org/biggest-error-crippling-mature-anointed-believers

 

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