Language of Jesus Language of Jesus It is generally agreed by historians that Jesus and his disciples primarily spoke Aramaic (Jewish Palestinian Aramaic), the common language of Judea in the first century AD, most likely a Galilean dialect distinguishable from that of Jerusalem. The villages of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee, where Jesus spent most of his time, were Aramaic-speaking communities. It is also likely that Jesus knew enough Koine Greek to converse with those not native to Palestine, and it is also possible that Jesus knew some Hebrew for religious purposes. Aramaic was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean during and
Jesus H. Christ implication being that since by the doctrine of the Virgin birth Jesus had no biological father, his genome would have been inherited entirely from his mother, the Virgin Mary. For the scientific background of the joke see Ploidy. The number of variant forms, usually with "H" replaced by something longer, is vast. "Jesus Harold Christ" (i.e. - "Our Father, who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name...") is mentioned above. Smith notes Jesus Holy Christ, Jesus Henry Christ, and Jesus H. Particular Christ. "Green's Dictionary of Slang" gives Jeezus K. Reist, Jesus F. Christ, Jesus H, Jesus H. Mahogany Christ,