Well, I do my best to answer any questions directed to me. That can sometimes mean “I don’t know”. But I won’t ignore it.
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You’re probably more reliable than most of us, who pick and choose what to respond to.
Some of you will have read my previous post in this thread in which I gave an explanation as to how Jesus predicted that Peter would deny Him (although He didn’t know that he would).
To save you the trouble of searching for this post, I have copied my explanation, and placed it immediately following:
Jesus fully knew the impulsive and fearful character of Peter, and thus made the prediction that Peter would deny him before daybreak. I suggest that the phrase “will deny me three times” was added by the writers. For the gospels were believed to have been written between A.D. 66 and 110, many years after this event. Because Peter denied Jesus three times, the writers thought Jesus had included “three times” in His prediction—just a matter of Matthew not remembering that detail accurately, while while Mark and Luke were not even present at the time.
Just to consider a clear case of someone not getting a detail accurately, Matthew remembered our Lord as saying “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times” whereas Mark records our Lord’s words as, “Before the rooster crows TWICE, you will deny me three times.”