Luke 22:55

55 And [when they] had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

Luke 22:55 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 22:55

And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall,
&c.] It being cold in the night time, though it was at the passover, and the beginning of harvest, the servants and officers of the high priest made a fire in the middle of the hall, whilst Jesus was examining before the sanhedrim, at the other end of it: and were sat down together;
about it, as the Syriac version adds, to warm themselves: Peter sat down among them;
for the same purpose, and as if he was one of them; and which he might do, not only to warm himself, but to prevent his being taken notice of, and suspected; as he might have been, had he been loitering about.

Luke 22:55 In-Context

53 Every day [when] I was with you in the temple [courts], you did not stretch out [your] hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!"

54 And they arrested him [and] led [him] away and brought [him] into the house of the high priest. But Peter was following at a distance.

55 And [when they] had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

56 And a certain female slave, seeing him sitting in the light and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him!"

57 But he denied [it], saying, "Woman, I do not know him!"

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had kindled") which is understood as temporal