Matthew: In Hebrew.
Mark: In Aramaic and Hebrew.
The language spoken by Jesus and by the people of Palestine at this time was the Aramaic. Mark attempts to give the words of Jesus in this language. But while the first two words are Aramaic, the last two are Hebrew. The words Mark attempts to give are “Elohi, Elohi, metul mah shabaktani?” This Gospel was written by one ignorant of the language of Palestine.
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Matthew interprets the Hebrew words quoted by him to mean, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Is this correct?
It is not. The words mean, “My God, my God, why hast thou sacrificed me?”
The Gospel of Matthew, it is claimed, originally appeared in Hebrew. But this shows that the author of Matthew did not understand the Hebrew language.