What Does Mark 14:70 Mean in the King James?
And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
His denial changes the sentence, but his speech still gives away the belonging he disowns.
THE MEANING
Your words can deny a connection while the manner of your speech still makes it audible. The verse holds both signals together: the denial is spoken, and the belonging is recognized in the same moment. A claim and its audible trace can contradict one another.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that saying “I am not one of them” makes a belonging inaudible; here the denial is heard, and the speech gives the speaker away.
THE ROOT
λαλιά
laliá
GROWS FROM
λαλ-
lal-
to speak or utter
This word can carry the manner or dialect of speech, not just the meaning of the sentence. Peter changes what he says, but his recognizable way of speaking still discloses the association.
ALSO GROWS
laleō: to speak, utter
λαλέω
The verb behind the word for speech points to audible expression, the very thing the bystanders recognize.
laliá: speech, manner of speaking, dialect
λαλιά
The same word names the voice pattern that identifies Peter beyond his denial.
ὁμοιάζει
homoiazei
GROWS FROM
ὅμοιος / ὁμοι- (hómoios / homoio-)
like, resembling
“agreeth thereto” in this verse is homoiazei. The Greek says his speech resembles theirs: the likeness itself becomes evidence. Even as Peter denies the connection in words, the sound of his speech is heard as like that of the people he denies.
ALSO GROWS
hómoios: like, similar
ὅμοιος
This adjective carries the root sense of resemblance behind “agreeth thereto.”
homoiotēs: likeness, similarity
ὁμοιότης
This related noun makes clear that what the bystanders hear is a recognizable likeness.
THE PATTERN
Recognizable signs in a person’s voice or bearing can disclose the company they belong to.
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.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.THE THREAD
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.Matthew uses the same Greek word, λαλιά (laliá), for “speech,” making this an exact root-level echo. It states the recognition plainly: Peter’s speech makes his association visible.
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