Luke 22:55
55
And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them.
Read Luke 22:55 Using Other Translations
And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
The guards lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter joined them there.
What does Luke 22:55 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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.
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