<p>22:58 <i>And after a little while another person saw him and said: You also are one of them. But Peter said: Man, I am not</i>- John says that a group of men made the second accusation; see the parallel texts at the commentary on :55. Luke says that Peter replied to the second accusation which Matthew says was made by a<i>&nbsp;woman</i> by saying &ldquo;<i>Man</i>, I am not&rdquo;. Clearly the accusations and denials were in groups- the second &lsquo;denial&rsquo; involved a number of people a man, a woman and plural men making accusations and Peter denying them all. If we put together the various records of Peter&rsquo;s three denials, it seems clear that a number of accusations were made, and he replied slightly differently each time. But there were three groups of accusations and denials. We can imagine the scene- there was a whole group of men and women present, all within earshot, and once one person made the accusation, others would&rsquo;ve chimed in. But the account is stylized to group the denials in three groups, and Peter obviously perceived this after his final oath of denial. But in fact it seems that each denial was a series of separate denials. Indeed the tense of the verb &ldquo;denied&rdquo; suggests he kept on and on denying.</p>