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Ephesus is situated in Western Turkey.In the days of Christ, Greek was the common language (the 'lingua franca') of the day, much like English is the common language of the Internet today. In fact, Greek was the international language used across the Roman Empire, despite the 'official' language being Latin (although this was used only in Italy). This is why the gospels were originally written in Greek.Nowadays, the language spoken in the Ephesus area is Turkish.


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What was the official language of the people of Ephesus is what?

Ephesus is situated in Western Turkey.In the days of Christ, Greek was the common language (the 'lingua franca') of the day, much like English is the common language of the Internet today. In fact, Greek was the international language used across the Roman Empire, despite the 'official' language being Latin (although this was used only in Italy). This is why the gospels were originally written in Greek.Nowadays, the language spoken in the Ephesus area is Turkish.


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Greek Biblos means a book. As greek was popular language then, and people used to refer to the books somewhat like 'This is written in the book of ....", bible could have become popular word for The Bible.


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