# Connecting Statement:

This begins the account of how Peter denies three times that he knows Jesus, as Jesus said he would do.

# General Information:

These events happen at the same time as Jesus' trial before the religious leaders.

# Now

This word is used here to mark a break in the main storyline. Here Matthew starts to tell a new part of the story.

# I do not know what you are talking about

Peter was able to understand what the servant girl was saying. He used these words to deny that he had been with Jesus.