Luke 22:55-57

22:55 When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. 22:56 Then a slave girl, ¹  seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!” 22:57 But Peter ²  denied it: “Woman, ³  I don’t know ⁴  him!”

¹ tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.

² tn Grk “he denied it, saying.” The referent (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.

³ sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions.

⁴ sn The expression “I do not know him” had an idiomatic use in Jewish ban formulas in the synagogue and could mean, “I have nothing to do with him.”