What was the Lingua Franca during the lifetime of Jesus?

by reverendcinzia

If I were to go to a market near where Jesus lived, what languages might I hear and what was the lingua franca? What was the common language in Rome at the time as well?

jelvinjs7

More can be said if anyone has anything else to add, but I think we can learn something from these older answers about how Jesus might have communicated:

Did Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ speak Greek? Would Christianity not have existed without Hellenistic backing? by /u/jimros.
How would Jesus as the son of a carpenter in a backwater have been able to speak Latin well enough to converse with Pontius Pilate? Pretty sure they didn't have latin classes in Bethlehem schools. by /u/[deleted].