eloi eloi lama sabachthani!

[snotra]

What language did Christ speak amongst his disciples?

 

[Spencerian]

What language did Christ speak amongst his disciples?

The common language among the peoples in Jesus’s time was Aramaic. Many also spoke Greek and Latin, commensurate with the multiple cultural influences and governments.

The phrase you quoted as the thread topic is Aramaic for “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” (Psalm 22:1, Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34).

 

[choy]

Greek was the language of commerce at that time, the universal language much like what english is today

 

[Rascalking]

You know, this is a great question.

I think often times some people, certianly not all, think that Jesus was born knowning every single language, and everything known to mankind. Could he speak German? He was born knowing it! Was he also born knowing quantum physics? Did he have to be taught to read?

I think it’s wrong to forget that Jesus was a human-He felt hunger, He felt sorrow-He was a human-just a perfect one.

I firmly believe that Jesus was the son of God, divine, and the Way, Truth, and Light-if anything I said was inocrrect, please let me know!

 

[Le_Cracquere]

The common language among the peoples in Jesus’s time was Aramaic

. Many also spoke Greek and Latin, commensurate with the multiple cultural influences and governments.

The phrase you quoted as the thread topic is Aramaic for “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”

Also worth pointing out that “Aramaic” was a patchwork of dialects that varied wildly from each other, and changed dramatically over the centuries it was a major language. The best samples of Aramaic we have come mainly from Mesopotamian & Egyptian chanceries (centuries before the birth of Christ), and from Syria & Asia Minor (centuries after the Crucifixion). Those tell us vanishingly little about the first-century Palestinian Aramaic that was the daily speech of Christ & His disciples, and the Gospels remain nearly our only source of clues. Nearly anything considered worth writing got written in Greek.

In short, we know close to zilch about the native tongue of Jesus. The “Aramaic” used in The Passion of the Christ was based on a hodgepodge of Aramaic dialects from other Mideast regions & centuries, heavily augmented by deduction & guesswork.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_of_Jesus