I remember a letter to the editor once that clarified the situation:
Jesus and all the biblical prophets spoke Latin actually.  The proof?
The letter writer reminded us that medieval paintings of Jesus and other
biblical figures had them speaking Latin.

Larry

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Larry Beason, Associate Professor
Director of Composition
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688-0002
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Let me quickly reply to Steve Roth's sigh, when he writes:



 >A friend who occasionally attends

 >Washington State legislature committee meetings in Olympia reported to
>me the follow statement by a legislator during a discussion of
bilingual

 >education:

 >

 >"Well if the English language is good enough for the Lord Jesus
Christ,
it's good enough for me."



As a folklorist, I can report that this story has been going around at
least
since the sixties (when I saw it in the Indianapolis Star, in the
letters to
the editor column), and appears regularly in such columns and other such
venues, attributed to many different speakers.  It may be that more than
one
writer or speaker actually says this, but it is still a contemporary
legend
and has questionable factual basis when reported second-hand.








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