<p>26:73&nbsp;<i>And after a little while</i>- Luke says it was after an hour.</p><p><i>They that stood by came and said to Peter</i>- Luke says it was one individual who made the third accusation, and John says it was specifically a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off. The three episodes of accusation and denial were therefore each comprised of a series of accusations and a series of denials. See on :71&nbsp;<i>Another maid</i>. This means that the Lord was being generous in saying that Peter would deny Him three times before the cock crowed. Each episode of denial contained many separate denials.</p><p><i>Of a truth you also are one of them, for your dialect makes you known</i>- This implies that the band of disciples were perceived as a group of Galileans.&nbsp; Matthew has earlier recorded the first accusation as being that &ldquo;You also were with Jesus the Galilean&rdquo;. Mark is explicit that they now said: &ldquo;You are a Galilean&rdquo;. And Luke records the statement of their simplistic logic: &ldquo;Of a truth, this man also was with him. For he is a Galilean&rdquo;. The fact Jesus was a Galilean and Peter was clearly a Galilean didn&rsquo;t, surely, have to mean that therefore Peter had to have been with Jesus as one of His disciples. But their reasoning shows to what extent they perceived Jesus and His followers to be all from Galilee. Remember that Galilee was despised as the most backward and least spiritually &lsquo;Jewish&rsquo; of all of Palestine; their accent was noted and perceived as harsh and crude, full of grammatical mistakes. But it was from the larynx of a Galilean Jew that there came the words of God Almighty, clothed as they were in the country accent and provincial style which was so despised. Christianity began as a peasant religion, a group of men perceived as simpletons. And it is in such communities or those perceived as such that the true spirit of Christ has often prospered most. Christianity has become a culture, and often the culture of the Western wealthy. But that is not at all how it began, and &lsquo;Christianity as culture&rsquo;, merely following the faith of our fathers, churchianity, is not the real, raw Christianity of Jesus and His Galileans.</p>