Mark 14:70

PETER’S DENIAL OF CHRIST, Mark 14:66-72.

70. A Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto The broad Galilean brogue was the jest of the more refined speakers of Jerusalem. As many of the Hebrew words resemble each other, with but a slight difference, a Galilean would frequently by his provincial mispronunciation produce an unintended meaning. Many anecdotes are in the Rabbins of these double meanings, as amusing as occur in English of the wrong use or disuse of the initial H.