• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Everything written about the life of Jesus was recorded decades later from personal recollections—the words attributed to him can’t be regarded as representative of his everyday speech, to the extent that they’re accurate at all.

    And the Jews were exempted from Roman religious laws—speaking against Rome might have been regarded as seditious, but not blasphemous (at least by the Romans).

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        Just a note: this line is in a Aramaic in John. Most of the gospels are in Greek, but select lines are in Aramaic. Jesus probably spoke Aramaic as his main, everyday language.