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
Sonnet on the Great Suffering of Jesus Christ words that are very rare in the Polish language. A similar poetic device (') was used earlier by another Polish baroque poet, Daniel Naborowski in the poem "The Brevity of Life" (in Polish '). The poem has been translated into English by Michael J. Mikoś. Sonnet on the Great Suffering of Jesus Christ "Sonnet on the Great Suffering of Jesus Christ" (in Polish ') is a poem by the 17th-century Polish poet Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. The poem is the last in the sequence "The Poems of Lent" (in Polish '). The poem is written in the manner of Italian or