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Then saith the damsel that kept the door - “one of the maids of the high priest,” says Mark (Mar 14:66). “When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him and said” (Mar 14:67). Luke is more graphic (Luk 22:56) - She “beheld him as he sat by the fire (literally, ‘the light’), and earnestly looked on him (fixed her gaze upon him), and said.” “His demeanor and timidity, which must have vividly showed themselves, as it so generally happens, leading to the recognition of him” [Olshausen].
Art thou not also one of this man’s disciples? - that is, thou as well as “that other disciple,” whom she knew to be one, but did not challenge, perceiving that he was a privileged person.
He saith, I am not - “He denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest” (Mat 26:70) - a common form of point blank denial; “I know [supply ‘Him’] not, neither understand I what thou sayest” (Mar 14:68); “Woman, I know Him not” (Luk 22:57). This was THE FIRST DENIAL. “And he went out into the porch [thinking, perhaps, to steal away], and the cock crew,” (Mar 14:68).