Mark 14:54
Context14:54 And Peter had followed him from a distance, up to the high priest’s courtyard. He 1 was sitting with the guards 2 and warming himself by the fire.
Mark 14:66
ContextPeter’s Denials
14:66 Now 3 while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls 4 came by.
1 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
2 sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
4 tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.