(April 18, 2015 at 4:17 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: 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?
Jesus and the Apostles all spoke Greek. It was the lingua franca of the Roman empire. Necessary for trade and all that. In fact, the Jews of the diaspora (those not living in Palestine) read the Greek Septuagint scriptures instead of the Hebrew scriptures.
Luke and John Mark were not Jews; they were Greeks. Paul, though Jewish, was a Roman citizen from Tarsus.
Yeah, the boys all spoke Greek.