Mark 14:66

μία τῶν παιδισκῶν. We have four accounts of the three denials. They exhibit, what is frequently found in honest witnesses, agreement in the main features combined with considerable difference in the details. The four records may be reduced to three, for Mt. is dependent on Mk. It is possible that Lk. is sometimes influenced by Mk, but in this section Mk, Lk., and Jn may be regarded as three independent witnesses. All four agree that the person who provoked the first denial was a woman, but they do not agree as to what she said, and they agree still less as to Peter’s reply. This παιδίσκη was a female slave in the high-priest’s household. See notes on John 18:25-27. The second denial is given very briefly by all four; but the first and third are reproduced with much fulness in Mk.