John 18:25 Commentary and Bible Study

Then back to Simon Peter, if you please, as John intertwines these two themes together. Now it is a group of people now, not just one. The apostle John misses out altogether the second challenge which came from another maid, which Peter actually answered with an oath, his denial was so emphatic. He proceeds to what in the other gospels is the third challenge – ‘Art not thou also one of his disciples?’ From a group. ‘He denied it, and said, I am not.’