The language of Jesus Christ

Tinker

Jesus Christ still talk to our very person whatever his native language of Aramaic, or Hebrew was, his words are just as alive as they were then, deep within our very soul.

So much so that sometimes I feel like I can reach out and touch him standing close to us where his spirit is. I see him by the child who has no other place to go, trapped to live around derange crazy people.

Beside the woman getting used by the weakness in males, abused and taken for granted. Filling up the lonely space to the elderly who because of their age is now unnoticed and left alone.

The spirit of Jesus Christ the amazing grace of God is just about every place that I look. Because he really never talked with only words of his native language but who became a person beyond words a spirit that is very real after death. That is always there whenever we care enough to love each other, as much as we love ourselves.

A passion that seems to go on and on alive within a divine attitude that just will not quit.

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Pope, Netanyahu spar over Jesus' native language

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded words on Monday over the language spoken by Jesus two millennia ago.

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"Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew," Netanyahu told Francis, at a public meeting in Jerusalem in which the Israeli leader cited a strong connection between Judaism and Christianity.

"Aramaic," the pope interjected.

"He spoke Aramaic, but he knew Hebrew," Netanyahu shot back.

Like many things in the Middle East, where the pope is on the last leg of a three-day visit, modern-day discourse about Jesus is complicated and often political. [ID:nL6N0OC0X6]

A Jew, Jesus was born in Bethlehem in the Roman-ruled region of Judea, now the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He grew up in Nazareth and ministered in Galilee, both in northern Israel, and died in Jerusalem, a city revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims, and to which Israelis and Palestinians lay claim.

Palestinians sometimes describe Jesus as a Palestinian. Israelis object to that.

Israeli linguistics professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann told Reuters that both Netanyahu, son of a distinguished Jewish historian, and the pope, the spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, had a point.

"Jesus was a native Aramaic speaker," he said about the largely defunct Semitic language closely related to Hebrew. "But he would have also known Hebrew because there were extant religious writings in Hebrew."

Zuckermann said that during Jesus' time, Hebrew was spoken by the lower classes - "the kind of people he ministered to".

(Writing by Jeffrey Heller; Additional reporting by Dan Williams; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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