( Acts 26:14 KJV ) “And when we were all fallen to the Earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.”!!
Jerusalem, Israel – Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded words on Monday over the language spoken by Yeshua – Jesus two millennia ago.
( Joshua 24:15 KJV ) “And if it seem evil unto you to Serve the LORD, Choose you this day whom ye will Serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and My House, We Will Serve the LORD.”!!
Pope Francis carried out a headline-grabbing three-day tour of the Holy Land, visiting refugees, hugging clerics and honoring the victims of the Holocaust. But perhaps the most interesting moment of the trip came during an exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting in Jerusalem. The Israeli premier and the pope found occasion for a slight historical quibble.
“Yeshua – Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew,” Netanyahu told the pope, through an interpreter. “Aramaic,” the pontiff immediately corrected. “He spoke Aramaic, but he knew Hebrew,” offered Netanyahu. You can watch the full exchange below ( it takes place around the one minute-mark ). Netanyahu is addressing the Spanish-speaking, Argentine pope in Hebrew, which is translated by the interpreter into Italian.
Reaction on social media was swift, with many siding with the Pope’s correction. Reza Aslan, author of a recent, best-selling popular history of Yeshua – Jesus, chimed in:
correction. Reza Aslan, author of a recent, best-selling popular history of Yeshua – Jesus Christ, chimed in: Reza Aslan;
And no. Yeshua – Jesus Christ didn’t speak Hebrew. He may have understood it but it wasn’t primary spoken language. He spoke Aramaic.
Reza Alsan is NOT a Christian at all, he is a Potty Mouthed islamic muslim that Slanders Yeshua – Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible!!
Thus; Reza Alsan is a Pathetic Pathological Liar, spreading hate with his tweets and his un-Christian Books!!
Neither Netanyahu nor the pope was wrong, but the question is a matter of emphasis. There’s scholarly consensus that the historical Yeshua – Jesus Christ principally spoke Aramaic, the ancient Semitic language which was the everyday tongue in the lands of the Levant and Mesopotamia. Hebrew was more the preserve of clerics and religious scholars, a written language for Holy Scriptures. Even so, certain portions of the Old Testament are written in Aramaic, a sign of its prevalence in Jewish antiquity. ( There remain those, particularly devout Christians, who dispute Aramaic’s primacy at the time .)
Aramaic and Hebrew are from the same family; the former’s script likely informed both written Hebrew and Arabic. Like most languages, Aramaic spread through centuries of conquest, spurred by the invasions of the Assyrian and later Persian empires. A version of it is spoken by communities of Chaldaean Christians in Iraq and Syria. Last year, when a historic Christian town near Damascus fell to Brack Hussein Obama’s Supported Syrian rebels, Western media warned of Islamists planting their flag among those who still speak the language of Yeshua – Jesus Christ.
In the age of the historical Yeshua – Jesus Christ, Aramaic was confronted by new imperial realities: The whole of the Levant, including Judaea, the ancient province that contains Jerusalem and Bethlehem, was part of the Roman empire. The historical Yeshua – Jesus Christ probably did not speak Latin. The lingua franca through much of the eastern Roman world was Greek, and he could have picked up a few words of that Mediterranean tongue from traders plying its caravan routes. The Holy Gospels carried down by tradition were written in Greek — a crucial link that cemented Christianity’s place in the Western world, via the eastern Roman empire.
Netanyahu’s desire to link Yeshua – Jesus Christ to Hebrew carries with it a very modern concern. It’s a gesture attempting to bridge Yeshua – Jesus Christ to the modern Israeli State, where Hebrew has been made the dominant language, superseding the polyglot dialects of the Jewish diaspora. It also echoes a competing strain of rhetoric from some Arabs who claim that Yeshua – Jesus Christ was a Palestinian, born in what is now the occupied West Bank.
( Psalms 122:6-9 KJV ) “Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For My brethren and companions’ sakes, I Will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the LORD our God I Will Seek thy good.”!!
Netanyahu likes to make historical allusions. In speeches, he frequently mentions his possession of a near 3,000-year-0ld golden signet ring, found by archaeologists near the Western Wall. It is inscribed “Netanyahu” — “That’s my last name,” he reminded everyone at a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in 2011. Invoked this way, the Israeli premier was explaining his ( and Israel’s ) unbreakable bond to the city of Jerusalem, whose geographic east is contested by the Palestinians. But Netanyahu’s father was born in Warsaw with the last name Mileikowsky and only adopted Netanyahu upon moving to Israel. Identities, like languages, are malleable things.
Okay for a Brief: Yeshua – Jesus Christ is the SON of GOD our FATHER which art in HEAVEN!! Yeshua – Jesus Christ Spoke Hebrew and He could Speak any Language of the entire Earth, because He was Not of this Earth, but, from the HEAVENLY FATHER God Above!! Thus: Yeshua – Jesus Christ Could Speak any Language in all the Universe because GOD CREATED HIM!!
( Psalms 100:3 KJV ) “Know ye that the LORD HE is GOD: it is HE that hath Made us, and not we ourselves; we are HIS people, and the sheep of HIS Pasture.”!!
The USA Stands with Israel-Yisrael
( Genesis 12:2-3 KJV ) “And I Will Make of thee a Great Nation, and I Will Bless thee, and Make thy Name Great; and thou shalt be a Blessing: And I Will Bless them that Bless thee ( Israel and USA ), and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all Families of the Earth be Blessed.”!! MAY GOD BLESS Israel-Yisrael / USA and our Christian Earth!! “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( I Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!
( Zechariah 2:8 KJV) “For thus Saith the LORD of Hosts; After the Glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that Toucheth you ( Israel-Yisrael ) Toucheth the Apple of HIS EYE.”!!
( Joshua 21:45 KJV ) “There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel-Yisrael; all came to pass.”!!
( Deuteronomy 7:6 KJV ) “For thou art an Holy people unto the LORD thy GOD: the LORD thy GOD hath chosen Thee to be a Special People unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”!!
( Isaiah 62:1 KJV ) “For Zion’s sake will I not hold My Peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I Will not rest, until the Righteousness thereof go forth as Brightness, and the Salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth.”!!
( II Chronicles 7:14 KJV ) “If My people, which are called by My Name, shall Humble themselves, and Pray, and Seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and Will Forgive their sin, and Will Heal Their Land.”!!
( Deuteronomy 28:1-2 KJV )”And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the Voice of the LORD thy GOD, to observe and to do all HIS Commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy GOD will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt Hearken unto the Voice of the LORD thy GOD.”!!
( Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV ) “Trust in the LORD ( ADONAI ) with all thine Heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways Acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy Paths.”!! TRUST in Jesus-Yeshua Christ with All Thine HEART and SOUL!!
( Acts 1:8 KJV ) “But ye shall receive power, after that the HOLY GHOST is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”!!
( John 17:3 KJV ) “And this is Life Eternal, that they might know Thee the ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah, Whom Thou Hast Sent.”!!
( Psalms 83:18 KJV ) “That men ( and everyone ) May Know that thou, whose Name Alone is JEHOVAH-YAHWEH, art the most High over all the Earth.”!!
( Isaiah 26:3-4 KJV ) “Thou wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace, whose mind is Stayed on Thee: because He Trusteth in thee. TRUST ye in the LORD-Christ-Messiah Jesus-Yeshua For Ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH-YAHWEH is Everlasting Strength:”!!
( Genesis 15:18 KJV ) “In the same day the LORD made a Covenant with Abram ( ABRAHAM ), saying, Unto thy Seed have I Given this Land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:”!! Israel-Yisrael is the SEED of ABRAHAM, ISSAC and JACOB of our HOLY BIBLE and the TORAH!!
“Happiness keeps You Sweet, Trials keep You Strong, Sorrows keep You Human, Failures keeps You Humble, Success keeps You Glowing, But Only GOD keeps You Going.”!! Amen-Amein Praise Christ-Messiah Jesus-Yeshua Hallelujah!!