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Were any of the Gospels written in Aramaic, since Christ and the Apostles spoke that language?

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Were any of the Gospels written in Aramaic, since Christ and the Apostles spoke that language?

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Yes, there is very good historical evidence that every one of the four gospels was originally written in Aramaic before AD 50. They were all translated into Greek much later, c. AD 120, or shortly afterwards. No complete manuscripts of the Aramaic gospels survive. However, large fragments of all four Aramaic original gospels survive as quotations made by ancient authors who wrote in Aramaic and who worshipped in the eastern Christian tradition. Significant traces of the earlier Aramaic gospel texts can also be found in the older manuscripts of the Syriac gospels, (I know because I have collected many such instances).

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