Theologian Captivity

 "In the course of His ministry, Jesus destroyed the two methods by which the theologians had held the people in bondage. As we’ve seen, one of those methods was their superior knowledge of the Hebrew language. Did Jesus endorse Hebrew as a holy language, the only language suitable for God’s messages to mankind? Not at all. Instead, the only record we have of His teachings is in Greek. By this, I don’t mean that Jesus necessarily taught in Greek. (Most linguists assume that he taught in Aramaic.) Yet, through the New Testament, His teachings were given to the world in Greek—not Hebrew or Aramaic. Jesus totally bypassed Hebrew. Unlike the theologians, He didn’t train His disciples to read Hebrew so they could read Scripture in its “original language.”In fact, when Jesus’apostles quoted from the Old Testament, they nearly always quoted from the Greek Septuagint, not from the Hebrew versions used by the theologians. Similarly, rather than recognizing the scribes and Pharisees as the “official interpreters of the Law,”Jesus called them “blind guides”who had missed the whole point of the Law. The theologians were constantly perturbed at Jesus because He contradicted their teachings."
(Will The Theologians Please Sit Down. David Bercot)