What language(s) did Jesus speak?
Aramaic would have been Jesus’s native tongue. But Greek was almost as popular and he was likely bilingual, Aramaic and Greek. [cite] (The Romans used Greek not Latin in most of their territories.) Hebrew might have been a third, learned language. All early Christian testimony was in Greek, with only occasional quotations in Aramaic. [cite] Since Greek was more common than Hebrew, Jesus should have been more familiar with the Greek translation of the Old Testament– the ‘Septuagint’– than the Hebrew original.
