Matthew 26:73

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

A little while later some people standing there walked over to Peter and said, “We know that you are one of them. We can tell it because you talk like someone from Galilee.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:24

About half of their children could not speak Hebrew—they spoke only the language of Ashdod or some other foreign language.

Matthew 26:72

Again Peter denied it, and this time he swore, “I don't even know that man!”

Matthew 26:74

Peter began to curse and swear, “I don't know that man!” At once a cock crowed,

Mark 14:70

“No, I'm not!” Peter replied. A little while later some of the people said to Peter, “You certainly are one of them. You're a Galilean!”

Acts 2:7

They were excited and amazed, and said: Don't all these who are speaking come from Galilee?

Judges 12:6

The guards would then tell them to say “Shibboleth”, because they knew that people of Ephraim could say “Sibboleth”, but not “Shibboleth”. If the man said “Sibboleth”, the guards would grab him and kill him there. Altogether, forty-two thousand men from Ephraim were killed in the battle and at the Jordan.