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• That surely tells us that Aramaic is the earliest form of the text, and that it was still in use, and still being preached, one thousand years later. All those early Churches of the East used Aramaic in their liturgy, even although Aramaic was not the normal everyday language of India, China or Mongolia. Why? It can only be because that was the language in which that the early preaching was done, and so Aramaic was the language they used ever since. There is no other reasonable explanation.
• But, many people will ask if there is any evidence for this in the New Testament. There is indeed.