Mark 14:66

Peter Denies Jesus Three Times

66 And [while] Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the female slaves of the high priest came up

Mark 14:66 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:66

And as Peter was beneath in the palace
Not at the lower and further end of the room, but in the lower part of it; that part in which Jesus and the sanhedrim were, being upon an advanced ground, with steps ascending to it:

there cometh one of the maids of the high priest;
the same that kept the door, and let him in. The Ethiopic version renders it, "a daughter of the high priest".

Mark 14:66 In-Context

64 You have heard the blasphemy! What {do you think}?" And they all condemned him {as deserving death}.

65 And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him "Prophesy!" And the officers received him with slaps in the face.

66 And [while] Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the female slaves of the high priest came up

67 And [when] she saw Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him [and] said, "You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus."

68 But he denied [it], saying, "I neither know nor understand what you mean!" And he went out into the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[while]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")