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I read an interesting article on the BBC today about which language Jesus spoke.
Follow me for a minute (remembering I am neither a Biblical scholar nor a linguist!)…..
The evidence suggests he spoke Aramaic or Hebrew and probably understood some Greek. I live and work in a place where people regularly use 2, 3 or even 4 different languages. It seems perfectly normal here to do so, yet each person seems to have 1 language that they understand best. We refer to this language as their mother tongue or heart language.
The New Testament was written in Ancient Greek so no matter what conclusion is drawn on the language Jesus spoke, it seems that Jesus words were translated when the Bible was first written down. God seems very pro translation to me!
I think God's desire to reach out to humanity is demonstrated in Revelation 7:9 "After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands"
Every language represented – it doesn't matter how big or how small that language group is and we have both here in Nigeria, they will be represented! Brilliant.
