Jesus taught in Aramaic. The Gospels were written down in Greek. This is a translation that listens for his voice beneath the Greek to try to learn from him on the firmest possible ground.
Qala d’Yeshua is Aramaic for the voice of Jesus.
The intention is to listen to Yeshua on the firmest possible ground. It is a rendering of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It starts from the Greek text, and it asks one question of every word: what Aramaic most likely stood beneath this?
Every verse is rendered from a blend of the Greek text and the Aramaic beneath it, weighted word by word according to how surely that Aramaic can be known. Where the evidence is strong, the Aramaic leads. Where it is thin, the Greek holds.
Eighty-nine chapters, rendered whole. Read them here in your browser, or take them with you as Word documents and MP3s.
One page for each Gospel: read it with the verse numbers kept for study, and when you press play the voice reads along, verse by verse, the numbers slipping away for a pure listen. Each Gospel remembers where you stopped. The Word edition and the full recording are on each card, for your desk and your shelf.
These are living drafts.
The Greek critical text is the base. The claim is never that the Greek is wrong. The claim is that beneath the speech of Yeshua there was Aramaic, and that sometimes, with discipline, we can know what it was.
So the method asks one question of every word in the four Gospels: can the Aramaic beneath this Greek word be responsibly identified? The answer places the word on a ladder with four rungs, and the rung decides which language governs the English.
Each rendering draws on the Greek critical text, the Peshitta consulted per token, the Old Syriac as a provisional witness, the Palestinian Aramaic lexicons, scholarly retroversions weighed source by source, the Hebrew Bible for the quotations, and a published caution layer for Syriac translator habit. By occurrence, most content words in the glossary now carry a Palestinian Aramaic or DJPA label (64.5%); the Peshitta remains the word-choice engine and the shown form. Behind the text stands a per-word apparatus (an 89-chapter interlinear and a felt-sense glossary of 1,180 root entries), now open on this site. If a rendering cannot be traced to its sources, it does not ship. Every source, cited and linked →
Behind the reading text stands the full working apparatus: an 89-chapter talk-along interlinear with every evidence row a toggle, the felt-sense glossary of 1,180 root-grouped entries, and the Living Map that draws the Gospels’ vocabulary as one living network. Every word shows its work; the cards here open each one.
Honesty by design: empty cells show as gaps, never hidden. Provenance is badged: nothing is called Galilean without evidence.
Try it: open Talitha, qumi · Mark 5:41, where the Greek itself preserves the Aramaic.
Or go deeper: Learn Aramaic by root: the 75 core roots of the Gospels, one page a day.