Was the New Testament originally written in Hebrew?
I believe it was Jerome, the 4th Century translator of the Latin Vulgate, who wrote that Matthew first wrote his Gospel in Hebrew, for the Jews, and then it was translated into Greek. However, all of the other manuscripts dating back to the 2nd century are in Greek. There is absolutely no evidence that the others were written in Hebrew of which I am aware. That would go against all the manuscript evidence of the past 18 centuries. There are presently 5,000+ manuscripts of the Christian Greek Scriptures, and that is why they are called that. Remember, Greek was the “lengua franca” (the universal language, like French used to be in Europe) of the apostle’s time, the language EVERYBODY–Jew, Greek, Roman, Asian–spoke. And remember that Jesus commissioned the disciples to “Go therefore and make disciples of people of ALL THE NATIONS…” and Greek was the one language they all understood. Remember when the apostle was mobbed by the Jews in Jerusalem? “But when he got upon the stairs, the s
