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In "The Passion of the Christ," Jesus and his disciples mainly converse in Old Aramaic, with Hebrew being the language of the Jewish authorities.

The language was usually the sole preserve of the lawmakers and Roman military. According to Oxford University's Jonathan Katz (via BBC News), other than a few basic words, Jesus would probably have been unable to speak Latin. However, most religious historians believe Jesus was multilingual, who spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic in his everyday life but also was well versed in Hebrew.

The linguistic locking of horns made headlines across the world.
