The Question of the Greek New Testament

[John V]

When I was a student at Biola, a 4 year Christian university, the Bible  professors and theologians spoke of reading the NT in the original Greek.  For many years, this sounded cool. I couldn't do it, but it was cool, nonetheless.

In the past few years, though, something occurred to me.  Jesus wasn't Greek. Neither did he speak Greek. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John weren't Greek. Neither did they speak Greek.  Peter, Paul, James and Jude weren't Greek. Neither did they speak Greek. So how could an authentic NT have been originally written in Greek?

Were all the Bible professors and theologians you speak of Greek themselves? If not, how did they read the NT in Greek?

Oh yeah, people can learn new languages.

Or, if you don't learn it yourself, an amanuensis could be used to take dictation in one language and put it into another.