MATTHEW 26:73 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.”
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter: certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you. The third identification: the Galilean accent that marks Peter as one of them. The accent that betrays him is the regional marker that the Jerusalem crowd recognizes as different from the Judean speech patterns.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:73
Among the other insults offered to our Lord was the threefold denial of Peter, which the several Evangelists relate in different order. Luke puts Peter’s trial first, and the ill-usage of the Lord after that; Matthew and Mark reverse the order.
'Peter sat without,' that he might see the event, and not excite suspicion by any approach to Jesus.
And he, who, when he saw his Master laid hands on, drew his sword and cut off the ear, now when he sees Him enduring such insults becomes a denier, and cannot withstand the taunts of a mean servant girl.
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