SLD
Contributor
Obviously Aramaic, but what else would a backwoods Galilean Rabbi from the first century have spoken? Latin? Just to communicate with the Romans around him? Or would he have learned Greek like other Hellenized Jews of the big cities? In Mel Gibson’s snuff flick, Jesus speaks in both Aramaic and Latin.
I doubt seriously that Pilate spoke Aramaic. He doesn’t seem to have cared much for Judeans, but he did spend 10 years there. But like any well educated Roman of the times, he probably was fluent in Greek. Did the Romans rely on translators?
And what language was he supposed to have conversed with the crowds that day? Did they all shout out crucify him in Latin? The New Testament was written in Greek, but did use Jesus’s last words uttered in Aramaic - in Matthew and Mark at least. Maybe they all spoke in Greek. Supposedly.
SLD
I doubt seriously that Pilate spoke Aramaic. He doesn’t seem to have cared much for Judeans, but he did spend 10 years there. But like any well educated Roman of the times, he probably was fluent in Greek. Did the Romans rely on translators?
And what language was he supposed to have conversed with the crowds that day? Did they all shout out crucify him in Latin? The New Testament was written in Greek, but did use Jesus’s last words uttered in Aramaic - in Matthew and Mark at least. Maybe they all spoke in Greek. Supposedly.
SLD