Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament In the New Testament, the term "Rhabbouni" is only used by the Magdalene here in John 20:16 and in by the blind man Bartimaeus in the account of the miracle of healing the blind near Jericho. The Rabbi title is used in several New Testament episodes to refer to Jesus, but more often in the Gospel of John than elsewhere and does not appear in the Gospel of Luke at all. In Matthew's account of the Last Supper () when Jesus says that he will be betrayed by one of his Apostles, one after another the Apostles say "Surely it
Aramaic New Testament Testament (particularly the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark) may have had Aramaic source texts which are no longer extant. The most noteworthy advocate of the "Peshitta-original" hypothesis in the West was George Lamsa of the Aramaic Bible Center. A tiny minority of more recent scholars are backers of the Peshitta-original theory today, whereas the overwhelming majority of scholars consider the Peshitta New Testament to be a translation from a Greek original. For instance the noted Assyriologist Sebastian Brock wrote: Some advocates of the "Peshitta-original" theory also use the term "Aramaic primacy", though this is not used in academic