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• Aramaic, on the other hand, was the language of the everyday people, who had won their victory over the Greeks. Surely that was a more fitting language, as indeed Josephus the Jewish historian tells us?
• And would not Jesus have loved going to the synagogue, to speak Hebrew, the Holy Language, as he read from the scrolls in the Temple?
• And does not this have a bearing on the language in which the gospels would first have been written down - Aramaic, or Greek? Why would Jesus and the disciples have preached and spoken in Greek, the language of the foreign invaders whose oppressions they had earlier revolted against?