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Joh 18:17. Καὶ σὺ,) thou also, as many others, and as thy companion.[382] If the maid had been ignorant of the fact that that other disciple was a disciple, there is no doubt but that she would have questioned him also. Therefore the maid had not asked the question for the sake of injuring him, but lest she herself should come into danger. [She had previously permitted the unnamed disciple to introduce Peter; then at last, fearing that she had admitted in a strange man at an unseasonable time, she went near the light, and having found Peter, who after a brief sitting or lying down (‘accubitum’) had presently after risen up again, she accosted him, thereby causing further questions to be put to him by the other servants also. Peter replied to the maid and the servants in the negative. This was the first denial. The same damsel made the beginning of that inquiry also, which impelled Peter to a second denial, after that he had been in the meantime occupied with warming himself in the palace, and had afterwards gone forth into the hall (‘atrium’). Some of the servants, as naturally happens, were sitting, some were standing; Peter did both by turns. His first denial was whilst sitting; the second, whilst standing. Whilst these things were being done, which are recorded, ch. Joh 18:19-23, he stood near the fire; for which reason John twice introduces mention of his standing: Joh 18:18; Joh 18:25.-Harm., p. 535.] Nor was Peter in greater peril than the other disciple.
[382] The ἄλλος μαθητής. An objection to ὁ ἄλλος-John being meant, as proposed in a former note-is Mat 26:56, “All the disciples forsook Him, and fled.” John, however, may have returned, as Peter did. Nicodemus, if he be meant, would be likely to know Peter as a fellow-disciple.-E. and T.