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• And so, many today wonder whether Jesus would have spoken Greek, or Aramaic, or Hebrew. Would Jesus, as a faithful Jew, as a future king in the line of David and the Maccabean kings, have spoken Greek, that language that the Greeks under Antiochus had imposed upon them, as he desecrated the Temple, sacrificed swine’s flesh, and raised up images of Zeus in the Temple that Jesus walked through on that cold winter’s day?
• Surely, even if Jesus could have spoken Greek, it was the language of the enemy, of the desecrators of the Temple, of the ones who had risen up to challenge his Father’s dominion in heaven. Surely Greek was the last language that Jesus, as a faithful Jew, would have wanted to speak.