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The Gospels were written in Greek. This piece of
John's Gospel, dated to 125, is so far the oldest copy
of a Gospel to be found. (Below) The first Gospel
printed by Johannes Guttenberg was in Latin.

Jesus spoke Aramaic; his original early
first-century audience was, for the most
part, Jewish, Palestinian, and rural. The
evangelists' language was Greek…
Traditions from and about Jesus spanning this
temporal, cultural, and linguistic circulated orally;
and the reliability of oral traditions, in the absence of
independent or convergent lines of evidence, is nearly
impossible to assess. Further, as psychological and an-
thropological studies of oral materials show, even reports
going back to eyewitnesses are far from historically secure.
Interpretation or distortion between an event and the report of an
event occurs almost inevitably, first of all because the observer is
human. If the report is communicated through different people over
a period of time before it achieves written form, revision can occur
at every human link in the chain of transmission. In brief, though
the oral transmission of traditions about Jesus allows us to assume
some relation between what the gospels report and what might ac-
tually have happened, it also requires that we acknowledge an in-
evitable – often incalculable – degree of distortion in those
traditions as well. 26