Subject: language Jesus speak |
Bible Note: Eli, Eli, LAMA, SABACHTHANI Actually Bible Scholars are at a slight lost to explain this. Eli, and Lama are Hebrew but Sabachthani is thought to be Aramaic. No one is real sure why the two languages were used or if Sabachtani was a Hebrew word that was originally lost. If you go back to Psalm 22 from which this passage was quoted you will see original Hebrew used completely different words. I have heard it explained that Jesus used "pure" Hebrew which was lost when the Children of Israel were in Egyptian Captivity. EdB |