'Bystanders' in the Bible

And when he had gone out to the gateway, another servant-girl saw him and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Surely you are one of them too; for even your [Galilean] accent gives you away.”

When some of the bystanders there heard it, they began saying, “This man is calling for Elijah.”

But one of the bystanders [Simon Peter] drew his sword and struck [Malchus] the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

The servant-girl saw him, and began once more to tell the bystanders, “This [man] is one of them.”

But again he denied it. After a little while, the bystanders again said to Peter, “You are in fact one of them, for [it is clear from your accent, that] you are a Galilean, too.”

Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’

The crowd of people who stood nearby and heard the voice said that it had thundered; others said, “An angel has spoken to Him!”