Posted: Feb 27, 2010 5:52 pm
So we have the possibility that he spoke all of these:
1. Aramaic - almost definitely (in his local dialect)
2. Hebrew - almost definitely (he could read and discuss the Torah)
3. Koine Greek - quite likely (the language of commerce of the day)
4. Latin - maybe (if the Roman soldiers were from Rome - he had to understand what they were saying)
5. And possibly - and I don't know the language - the language the Roman employed soldiers spoke since someone said in another place that the soldiers were recruited from the local surrounding regions. (Now I wonder who that could have been?
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Being an educated man, and bearing in mind Corneel's post above, he could have spoken all five.
1. Aramaic - almost definitely (in his local dialect)
2. Hebrew - almost definitely (he could read and discuss the Torah)
3. Koine Greek - quite likely (the language of commerce of the day)
4. Latin - maybe (if the Roman soldiers were from Rome - he had to understand what they were saying)
5. And possibly - and I don't know the language - the language the Roman employed soldiers spoke since someone said in another place that the soldiers were recruited from the local surrounding regions. (Now I wonder who that could have been?
)Being an educated man, and bearing in mind Corneel's post above, he could have spoken all five.