22:54–62 Significantly Luke omits Mark’s reference to the disciples’ flight (14:50), but he does go on to narrate Peter’s three denials. Perhaps nowhere else in the gospel tradition does the careful reader encounter more discrepancies in matters of detail and chronology than in the account of Peter’s denials and Jesus’ trial. (For a discussion of the problems pertaining to Jesus’ trial see the commentary on 22:63–23:25 below.) Peter’s denials present the greatest difficulties, as illustrated by the following points: (1) Whereas Matthew (26:57), and presumably Mark (14:53) and Luke (22:54), has Peter deny Jesus all three times at the house of Caiaphas the high priest, John (18:13, 17, 24) has Peter first deny Jesus at the house of Annas, a former high priest and father-in-law of Caiaphas, a…