Jesus would have spoken Aramaic which is descended from Hebrew,
but is not the same language. This is evidenced by the fact that
in the few places where Jesus words are left untranslated, he is
speaking in Aramaic—Abba, father. And Talitha cum (Daughter
arise) Also, whether or not Matthew is the first gospel is a
matter of some debate. The Greisbach hypothesis, for example,
suggests that Mark is the first Gospel, from which Matthew and
Luke drew in order to flesh out their accounts. If Mark is the
first Gospel, then its main witness, Peter, would probably have
spoken to Mark in Aramaic. Many manuscripts of the time would be
dictated to an emaneusis—a scribe who would listen and then
write. Since Aramaic was such a limited language, it is not
altogether unlikely that the emaneusis would have listened to
what was said by the author, but written it down in Greek. Greek
was the lingua Franca of the old world, even if not the language
that people spoke. It would be akin to English today. An analogy
might be as if