When you’ve just lied three times, you don’t want your teachers, mentors or friends to find you out.

Jesus has just told Peter that he (Peter) will be tested the way a farmer separates wheat from husks – with focused intensity and power that shreds living material apart – but that he has prayed for Peter’s faith. In the courtyard of the high priest’s house, Peter declares (v 33) that he’s ready to go with Jesus to jail.