1Corinthians 13:3

[Zechariah14]

Shlama Akhay,

In some manuscripts of the Greek versions of the NT we read with astonishment:

"And if I give all my possessions to feed {the poor,} and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:3, GNT)

Forgive me if you have addressed this elsewhere.

Unlike the gospels, it seems counter-intuitive to me to hold that either book of Corinthians was written in anything but Greek. I mean, Corinth is in Greece, after all. Do you think that Paul was writing to a Aramaic speaking congregation in Greece, or to someone who would translate Paul's Aramaic into Greek (Luke perhaps) or something else? If Paul was writing in Aramaic to a congregation in Greece, why was he doing so?

Zechariah14