Matthew 26:73

After a while. According to Luke 22:59, approximately an hour elapsed between the first two denials and the third.

They that stood by. John (ch. 18:26) identifies Peter’s third accuser as a servant of the high priest, a kinsman of Malchus, whose ear Peter had severed. Peter immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. If he should be identified as the man who had struck Malchus, there was danger of his being haled into court as an attempted murderer.

Speech. Apparently Peter’s Galilean accent, or pronunciation (see Mark 14:70). The Galilean dialect was broader and rougher than that of Judea, and no doubt the people of Jerusalem listened condescendingly to the speech of the ruder provincials. Galilean pronunciation of the gutturals is said not to have been so smooth as that of the Judeans.

Bewrayeth. Old English for “betrays.” The Greek reads literally, “makes evident.”