DENYING KNOWING JESUS So they arrested him and led him to the high priest’s home. And Peter followed at a distance. The guards lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter joined them there. A servant girl noticed him in the firelight and began staring at him. Finally she said, “This man was one of Jesus’ followers!” But Peter denied it. “Woman,” he said, “I don’t even know him!” —Luke 22:54-57 When Peter was warming himself near the fire, he was identified by a servant girl as being one of Jesus’ followers. Peter was sitting around the fire with guards and he denied…