Is the Holy Spirit Misleading You?

[Jehanne]

The dominant language in Palestine in the early first century was Aramaic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus

Hebrew was also known, but probably not Greek, as that was the language of the educated, and the Gospels say that the disciples were illiterate.

Well, according to the words of the fairy tale =

John 12:20-27 = https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...EV;NLT;GNV

So you have a bunch of Greeks who worship at the Passover.  They spoke to the Apostles requesting a meeting with Yeshua.  If the Apostles and Jesus couldn't speak and understand the Greek dialect then the Greeks must have been fluent in Hebrew or Aramaic.  

This is a mystery indeed.

John is a Gospel that few scholars trust for any historical authenticity, and your example is one of many reasons why the Jesus Seminar coded the Gospel of John with nothing but black beads (not a single word from the mouth of the historical Jesus.)  John and his community were simply not interested in the historical Jesus, but in theologizing, turning Jesus from an apocalyptic prophet into the Son of God.  They were no different than the Gnostics, except for the fact that they were on the other end of the Jesus spectrum; whereas, the Gnostics saw Jesus in almost spiritual terms, John's community saw him in almost physical, yet divine, terms.  Eventually, the two memes were forced to merge and you got the physical/spiritual God-man.