Claims to Greek from "From Jesus to Christ"

[Dave]

and that he composed it in the Hebrew tongue and published it for the converts from Judaism

I got to thinking of your example and your reasoning Paul. Here I show the original quote from Origen, who was from around the same time frame as Papias. Here he is clearly saying Hebrew tongue, not dialect.

What sayest thou ???

Beyond any of our reasoning here,...foremost and first, none of us was there at the time and it is a crapshoot for us to figure out. Was any of these written in Hebrew? Was any of them written in Greek? Was everything written in Aramaic, or was all of them written in Greek? Really, we have no idea because we were not there at the time. If we go off the church fathers who did write something down, were they being biased or were they telling the truth? Was they relating opinion or fact? Again, we really don't know. We can try to reason it with what proof we are able gather and give an educated guess, but to make a "for certain" statement, I don't think any of us can.