How did Peter deny Jesus Christ - JSS2 Christian Religious Studies The betrayal and arrest Question

Peter was still down in the courtyard when one of the High Priest’s servant’s women came by. When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked straight at him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus of Nazareth.” Peter denied it, “I don’t know I don’t understand what you are talking about”, he answered, and went out into the passage, just then a cock crowed. The servant woman saw him there and began to repeat to the bystanders, “He is one of them!” Peter denied it again. A little while later the bystanders accused Peter again, “You can’t deny that you are one of them, because you, too, are from Galilee.” Then Peter said, “I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know the man you are talking about!” Just then a cock crowed a second time, and Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the cock crows twice, you will say three times that you do not know me.” Peter broke down and repented of his sin, as he cried to God for forgiveness.