Luke 22:56

παιδίσκη τις. Apparently the portress (John 18:17) who had been meanwhile relieved, and who, after a fixed gaze, recognized Peter as the man whom she had admitted. She therefore exclaimed, “This fellow too (as well as John) was with Him.” The reports of the Evangelists differ, but each faithfully preserves the καί. The accounts of these denials by the Evangelists are (as St Augustine says of their narratives generally) “various, but not contrary.” They are capable of perfectly easy and perfectly natural reconcilement, and are a valuable proof of independence.

πρὸς τὸ φῶς. “To the light,” i.e. with the light of the brazier shining full on him.

ἀτενίσασα. ‘Fixing her eyes on him.’ See Luke 4:20.