Comment by telotortium

> probably in Hebrew, written up in Aramaic or Greek

It is generally agreed upon by scholars that Jesus’ primary language, like in Palestine generally, was Aramaic, not Hebrew, which was already well on its way to becoming a liturgical language (although Jesus probably knew Hebrew well, as he was called “rabbi”, and likely Greek as well): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus. Certainly for the context of this quote, it’s likely that he was speaking in Aramaic, given that in the chapter he was responding to questions from a variety of local people.