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• We do not find the proud peoples of the Middle East adopting the Greek language just because Alexander and his army rode across the area on horseback. Nor do we find that the proud peoples of the Middle East adopted the Latin language, when the Roman Empire invaded the Middle East, settled there, ruled there, and lived there.
• And so, by the time we come to the Jesus of Nazareth in Israel in the first century A.D., we find that the peoples in the Middle East still spoke the same language they always had spoken - Aramaic. Jews still clung tenaciously to the Hebrew language, with Aramaic as their everyday language. Small pockets of mainly apostate Jews and others may well have spoken Greek, but that was certainly not the norm.