Many believe the tradition...that the Jews of the 1st century did not speak Hebrew.
In fact the Bible presents nothing of the sort.
Jews spoke to each other in Hebrew.
1Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
2(And when they heard that
he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Acts 22:1-2
Yeshua spoke to Paul in the
HEBREW TONGUE.
13At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. 14And 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. 15And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Acts 26:13-15
So we can see that "Jesus" actually had a
HEBREW NAME!
There were so called "Hellenized" Jews. However we can see that they were considered outside of the normal Jewish culture not the main flow of it.
1And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of
the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Acts 6:1
The Grecians were the "Hellenized Jews". A minority of the Jewish people of the 1st century. A minority among the Messianic Assembly of the 1st century.
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