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.

Mark 14:66

Peter’s Denials

14:66 Now ³  while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls ⁴  came by.

[14:54]  ¹ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[14:54]  ² sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.

[14:66]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[14:66]  ⁴ tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.