Jesus Was Likely Multilingual
Most religious scholars and historians agree with Pope Francis that the historical Jesus principally spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic.
What language did God speak to Jesus?
But Jesus's "everyday" spoken language would have been Aramaic. And it is Aramaic that most biblical scholars say he spoke in the Bible.
What was the language spoken in Israel during Jesus time?
It is especially clear that in enlightened circles such as those of Jesus and his disciples, Hebrew was the dominant spoken language. Not only was Hebrew the most prevalent spoken language in the land of Israel during the first century, it was also the language in which most literary works were written.
