Women in the Bible

Two Servant Girls who Accuse Peter

Matthew 26:69-72, Mark 14:66-69, Luke 22:56-57, John 18:15-17

• Mark 14:66-67 While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came by. When she saw Peter warming himself, she stared at him and said, “You also were with Jesus, the man from Nazareth.”

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “Peter” by Paul Dilley

Books

• “Two Servant-Girls Who Accuse Peter” (pp.419-420) by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• “Gospel of Mark” by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

• “The Passion Narrative: Luke 22” in A Woman Reads the Gospel of Luke by Loretta Dornisch (1996)

• “Out of Mind, Out of Voice: Slave-Girls and Prophetic Daughters in Luke-Acts” (Ch. 6) by F. Scott Spencer in Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth: The Women in Jesus' Life by Frank Scott Spencer (2004)

• “Esther Accosts Peter” (Ch.15) in Hidden Women of the Gospels by Kathy Coffee (1996)