VERSE STUDY • KJV

Luke 22:56

But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.

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But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.

A servant girl saw him seated in the firelight and looked intently at him. “This man also was with Him,” she said.

A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

And a certain maid seeing him as he sat in the light of the fire, and looking stedfastly upon him, said, This man also was with him.

and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, ‘And this one was with him!’

53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

54 Then took they him, and led [him], and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off.

55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.

56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.

57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.

58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.

59 And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this [fellow] also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.

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