Argument from Aramaic for Petra – From Tract: Peter the Rock
“We know that Jesus spoke Aramaic because some of his words are preserved for us in the Gospels. Look at Matthew 27:46, where he says from the cross, ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani”. That isn’t Greek; it’s Aramaic, and it means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?‘ “What’s more,” I said, “in Paul’s epistles—four times in Galatians and four times in 1 Corinthians— we have the Aramaic form of Simon’s new name preserved…