numerous. Some of those people provided a bridge between the synagogues and the first churches in Palestine (2.78; 2.86). Those early churches quickly took on a Greek identity (2.71). Aramaic, however, was still the native language of the people, and most business in the street was conducted in that tongue. Much like a modern American city, with signs in English and Spanish, Jerusalem was a city which had to say everything important in at least two languages. Archaeologists have uncovered a bilingual