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The Triple Denial

Matthew 26:69-75

Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came to him. 'You also were with Jesus of Galilee,' she said. But he denied it before them all. 'I don't know what you're talking about,' he said. Then he went out to the gateway, where another servant-girl saw him and said to the people there, 'This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.' He denied it again, with an oath: ' don’t know the man!' After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, 'Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.' Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, 'I don't know the man!' Immediately a cock crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: 'Before the cock crows, you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly. (NIVUK)

Peter should never have been in that courtyard mixing with the soldiers and servant girls. His arrogance, pride or bravado took him there, foolishly following through with his hopelessly arrogant promise to Jesus (Matthew 26:33-35). Perhaps it was his misplaced sense of responsibility for Jesus. Whatever it was, he failed to live up to his own expectations that night. His accent (from Galilee in the north) gave him away, and many people would have seen the distinctive fisherman with Jesus.