I can definitely agree to this viewpoint. But seeing as the original person, Papias, to report Matthew was first written in Hebrew around 44 A.D. was a close friend of Polycarp, a direct friend and Disciple of the Apostle John, it seems this information could and most likely is passed to them from the Apostle John.
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This is why I have the list I have of those who can be directly connected to the Hebrew written Gospel of Matthew. We can say maybe some are wrong, but are all of them wrong about this topic is the real question. Personally, with so many that can be used to confirm the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, it pushes more towards the truth than anything else.
This is why I have the list I have of those who can be directly connected to the Hebrew written Gospel of Matthew. We can say maybe some are wrong, but are all of them wrong about this topic is the real question. Personally, with so many that can be used to confirm the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, it pushes more towards the truth than anything else.
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You are very mistaken. Several men who wrote histories of the church have stated that it was first written in Hebrew. Besides, each person except Luke had Hebrew as their first language, each person though in Hebrew even if they wrote in Greek.
Matthew wrote to an audience who knew of old testament, and his gospel is best understood when the many references Matthew makes to the old testament are explored.
Matthew wrote to an audience who knew of old testament, and his gospel is best understood when the many references Matthew makes to the old testament are explored.
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"Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them."—Acts 20:28-30
Paul warned it wouldn't take long for the wolves to creep in.
Paul warned it wouldn't take long for the wolves to creep in.
I don't think there is one scripture that says look, you dummies, I have written this gospel in Hebrew because I am a Jewish scholar who reads the Hebrew scrolls, but you will be reading it from Greek translations of the Hebrew. God let historians tell you this is what Matthew did, but if you won't listen then you won't listen.
Obviously you have no idea about (1) divine inspiration and (2) why God chose the Greek language for the New Testament. So let's do a quick review.
1. The nation of Israel had the Torah for about 1500 years, and the rest of the OT after that. But the history of the Jews shows that they were generally in rebellion against the prophets, and went into Assyrian and Babylonian captivity.
2. When Jesus of Nazareth, the King-Messiah of Israel came to earth, He was accepted by some, but the nation of Israel rejected Him, had Him crucified through the Romans. "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not".
3. After His resurrection and after Pentecost, the Jews in Palestine did not fully embrace Christ as their Lord and Savior. Even so, Paul went to all the synagogues in the Roman empire to preach the Gospel out of the Old Testament, as well as his personal witness. Once again the Jews scattered outside Judea generally rejected Christ. In fact they attacked Paul.
4. Finally, while Paul was under house arrest in Rome, he tried to bring the Jews over there to Christ but could not win them all. So he said that he would leave the Jews and focus on the Gentiles.
5. Given this history of the rejection of the Gospel by the Jews -- the ones who should have received Christ 100% -- God caused all the evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), as well as the other apostles to write the New Testament books in Greek by divine inspiration.
6. Greek was the lingua franca or common language of the Roman empire (as English is the universal language today), and God's plan was to convert the Roman empire to Christianity. This happened within about 200-400 years. All of Europe and North Africa became Christian. and Christianity also spread throughout the world, even as far as India.
7. Because of this almost all the manuscripts of the New Testament are in Greek. Some are in Old Latin translations, and also in other languages (such as Arabic, Ethiopic, etc). So for Syrian (and other Christians who spoke Aramaic) the GREEK NT was translated into Aramaic in the 2nd century AD. It is called the Peshitta. This is the only genuine translation of Matthew into Aramaic.
Later on 14th century Jewish rabbis (e.g. Shem Tov) translated Matthew into Hebrew and began to claim that these translations went all the way back to Matthew. But that was just baloney.
1. The nation of Israel had the Torah for about 1500 years, and the rest of the OT after that. But the history of the Jews shows that they were generally in rebellion against the prophets, and went into Assyrian and Babylonian captivity.
2. When Jesus of Nazareth, the King-Messiah of Israel came to earth, He was accepted by some, but the nation of Israel rejected Him, had Him crucified through the Romans. "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not".
3. After His resurrection and after Pentecost, the Jews in Palestine did not fully embrace Christ as their Lord and Savior. Even so, Paul went to all the synagogues in the Roman empire to preach the Gospel out of the Old Testament, as well as his personal witness. Once again the Jews scattered outside Judea generally rejected Christ. In fact they attacked Paul.
4. Finally, while Paul was under house arrest in Rome, he tried to bring the Jews over there to Christ but could not win them all. So he said that he would leave the Jews and focus on the Gentiles.
5. Given this history of the rejection of the Gospel by the Jews -- the ones who should have received Christ 100% -- God caused all the evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), as well as the other apostles to write the New Testament books in Greek by divine inspiration.
6. Greek was the lingua franca or common language of the Roman empire (as English is the universal language today), and God's plan was to convert the Roman empire to Christianity. This happened within about 200-400 years. All of Europe and North Africa became Christian. and Christianity also spread throughout the world, even as far as India.
7. Because of this almost all the manuscripts of the New Testament are in Greek. Some are in Old Latin translations, and also in other languages (such as Arabic, Ethiopic, etc). So for Syrian (and other Christians who spoke Aramaic) the GREEK NT was translated into Aramaic in the 2nd century AD. It is called the Peshitta. This is the only genuine translation of Matthew into Aramaic.
Later on 14th century Jewish rabbis (e.g. Shem Tov) translated Matthew into Hebrew and began to claim that these translations went all the way back to Matthew. But that was just baloney.
https://www.ntgreek.org/answers/nt_written_in_greek.htm
http://www.ntgreek.org/SeminaryPape...ry and the Gospels that Jesus Spoke Greek.pdf
Matthew also issued a written gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect.
— Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3:1
Greek was their dialect back then. Fitzmyer refuted his own claim that Aramaic thing in BAR.
http://www.ntgreek.org/SeminaryPape...ry and the Gospels that Jesus Spoke Greek.pdf
Matthew also issued a written gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect.
— Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3:1
Greek was their dialect back then. Fitzmyer refuted his own claim that Aramaic thing in BAR.
Much of the new testament is written in Greek, but written by men who knew and thought of scripture as they had learned to think of it through the scrolls in Hebrew. Hebrew meaning of words is very important to understanding scripture. I wonder why this fact is spoken of as these posts speak of it?
A large portion of the hew testament either quotes or refers to the old testament that was mainly written in Hebrew. How do these anti Hebrew people thing God could get these authors to know these scriptures if they weren't able to read them?
A large portion of the hew testament either quotes or refers to the old testament that was mainly written in Hebrew. How do these anti Hebrew people thing God could get these authors to know these scriptures if they weren't able to read them?