Mark 14:54

14:54 And Peter had followed him from a distance, up to the high priest’s courtyard. He ¹  was sitting with the guards ²  and warming himself by the fire.

Matthew 26:58

26:58 But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After ³  going in, he sat with the guards ⁴  to see the outcome.

Matthew 26:69-70

Peter’s Denials

26:69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A ⁵  slave girl ⁶  came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 26:70 But he denied it in front of them all: ⁷  “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

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, ⁸  seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!” 22:57 But Peter ⁹  denied it: “Woman, ¹⁰  I don’t know ¹¹  him!”

¹ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

² sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

⁴ sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

⁶ tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.

⁷ tn Grk “he denied it…saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

⁸ tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ 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.”