Did Jesus speak to Pilate in his native language?

[RBushlow]

I know that a previous answer resolved the question about whether Jesus spoke Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew. I wouldn’t think that a Roman governor would condescend to speak the collequial dialect. So might not Jesus have spoken Roman (Latin) as well? Thank you.

 

[Michelle_Arnold]

Jesus may have spoken Latin. We simply don’t know. That Jesus may have spoken Latin to Pilate at his trial was a bit of dramatic license Mel Gibson employed in his movie The Passion of the Christ. Pilate began to speak to Jesus in Aramaic but, when Jesus responded in Latin, a startled Pilate switched to Latin. By having Christ unhesitatingly speak a language with which an ordinary Jewish peasant would have had little familiarity, the device was a means of showing Christ’s divinity.