Why didn't Jesus speak English?

lol Olde English. I've actually heard people say, and I quote, If the King James bible was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me. lol psst. They think he did. Wow! Little Bear is still on. Time change. 2 hours of Little Bear!

Jesus did live in the middle east, and true he is God and could have made everyone around him understand english, the most powerful way for someone to hear the gospel is in their own language. Even today missionaries learn the language of the country they are going to before they try and share the gospel.

And long long ago when Jesus was alive although he knew that in 2008 you and I would speak english the people of that time didn't. Maybe in 3008 everyone will speak french, but I don't understand it. I wont be alive then so do you think that he should have spoke French?

He was and is all knowing and knew that their would be people that could translate things for us. If you read the story of Babel (Babylon) you might better understand why we don't all speak the same language. It's in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. I think that should show its importance.

Genesis 11-- you should read it.

Your language and the other languages in the world are plainly a common code of interest group or tribe to allow them to communicate easily among each other. Jesus was not born in the English speaking nation, so your "nah" is a senseless word.

The Bible translation in its early times was not even translated in English. It was from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to German and most of the rituals were done in the early centuries of civilizations in Latin until only it was made available to be translated in English and other languages in the the 1950's only.

If you expect God to be speaking in English. remember that they have a different god before Christianity spreads.And the Old English words were not totally the same as the one we are using now. so. from there, a possibility to make errors will still be the same.

Another thing, Jesus is not God. The True God speaks through your mind and heart and no coded word is needed to get to you or you to get to him. If you have not experienced that, then maybe you need to know and understand more of yourself to find Him.

As God promised, He has preserved His word for th English people in the King James B ible. Proverbs 16:10 says, "A divine sentence is in the lips of the King..." Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word of a King is, there is power..."

King James, "James" is not an English word but a Hebrew word. Did you know the Hebrew word for James is Jacob? You'll never guess what Psalms 147:19 says, "He showeth His Word unto Jacob..."

2 Timothy 2:9, reads "...the word of God is NOT BOUND." There is no copyright on the King James Version of the Bible.

Jesus always prepares the way - have a blessed day!!!

Christianity did NOT begin in England/America, and it's rather ignorant that you would assume the religion revolves around either country. Christianity has existed for thousands of years! England and America didn't exactly have global standing like they do now.

Jesus worked to convert the society around him, and to eventually clash with the Romans. England and America had nothing to do with it.

If you mean 'wouldn't God have premeditated all the 'mistranslation' comments in the future?' then I suppose that's just another question in the tangle of thousands of questions about God, as it is. Why doesn't God show Himself now, since he must have known in the future that atheists would be showing up? That's another 'why didn't God nip things in the bud' question, just like the translation thing.

Even if he did speak English, the people who wrote it all down didn't! They would have written it all in whatever language they thought he said.

Jesus, so far as we know, never set pen to parchment. Everything was written down years after he died.

Furthermore, even if he did write it down, it would have been copied a thousand times until it was all meaningless gobbledygook.

We're better off just hoping that God is in charge of the translations and that we can infer some kind of useful meaning from the result.

jesus doesn't speak english for one reason, the true religion was founded in the middle east which is the garden of eden situated. the world before started from that part until the deluge came and man expanded their territory what it became today. the language before was hebrew and the first religion was judaism. maybe you want to ask why we have so many languages today, then you have to make the research about the tower of babel when god created confusion among jews who wants to create glory for themselves through the tower of babel, that's where the languages come from. and then when peter and the others got anointed with holy spirit with some jews during their time god made the passage for the people to expand the propagation of true religion by granting them all the possible language on earth which is the case today in order for the true religion to have one language and one religion though they are in another country. they follow same rules, same manners, same god, same belief, but they don't know each other. only they apply jesus advice "if you have love among yourselves you are my disciples" i hope this answer your question.

English as a language did not yet exist in Jesus' day. And English is a constantly changing language. Which one should he use? US English? Great Brittan's? South African or Australian? Ebonics? Should he speak with a southern drawl or a Yankee accent?

I hear God. He speaks and I hear.

You clearly don't understand God.

Jesus lived in the Middle East silly.

English as we know it didn't exist back then. Also, many other people DIDN'T speak anything near English. Most of the people actually spoke different languages.

If God did exist, he would have focused more on trying to convert the people back then when English wasn't around (that age lasted quite a few hundred years), not the atheists today who have existed for maybe only 100 years.