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Originally Posted by Ohio
So ... let me get this straight ... not one writer of the NT could speak Greek, but they could all write Greek.
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Probably few if any wrote any Greek. It means that whatever they said, whether written down in Aramaic or simply retold verbally, was eventually translated.
That is not a problem to me. But for those who need these word studies to be really meaningful, the fact that Greek is not the original language is probably something they do not want to be heralded.
BTW. Over 20 years ago I was invovled in a small Bible study in which someone pointed out that those three Greek words that we make so much out of where Jesus questioned Peter, then told him to feed the sheep, was not spoken in Greek. So we have no idea what importance to lay on the variance. It could be real. It could have been the understanding that those who were present got from it and that was translated into the differences we now read (in Greek). But it may not have been. No way to be sure.