双语阅读｜Did Jesus speak English? 耶稣说英语么？

Jesus spoke English and Jesus was an American. Is this true?

耶稣说英语，耶稣是美国人。这是真的吗？

No. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew. The New Testament was written in Greek. Jesus spoke Aramaic (related to Hebrew) and possibly Greek. He was a jew from a province north of Jerusalem.

不。《旧约》最初是用希伯来语写的。《新约》是用希腊文写的。耶稣讲亚拉姆语（与希伯来语有关），也可能讲希腊语。他是一个出自耶路撒冷以北一个省的犹太人。

At the time the books of the Bible were written, English didn’t even exist.

在写圣经的那个时候，英语甚至还不存在。

Not long after the events chronicled in the New Testament, the books of the Bible (more or less as we have them today) were translated into several hundred languages. However, by the Middle Ages, the only language the Roman Catholic church allowed for the Bible was Latin.

《新约》记载后不久，《圣经》的书籍（我们今天或多或少都有）被翻译成几百种语言。然而到了中世纪，罗马天主教会唯一允许使用《圣经》的语言是拉丁语。

chronicle n. 编年史;历史;v. 把…载入编年史; 按事件发生顺序记载。The New Testament是新约，Bible是《圣经》，圣经分新约和旧约，新旧约以耶稣出生为界限。

It took the reformers, most notably John Tyndale, of the 16th century to translate the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into English—often at the cost of their own lives.

改革者，尤其是16世纪的约翰·廷代尔，常以自己的生命为代价，把圣经从原来的希腊语和希伯来语翻译成英语。

notably adv. 尤其； 特别； 极大程度上； 非常。

Thanks to their work, we can read the Bible in English today, and in many other languages as well.

多亏了他们的工作，我们今天得以用英语和其他许多语言来阅读圣经。