As Jesus was eating the Passover meal with His disciples He spoke to Simon Peter.  He told Simon Peter that Satan had asked permission of God to sift Peter as wheat is sifted.  But Jesus added, “I have prayed for you, that your faith not fail…”  How did brash Peter respond?
(NASB) Luke 22:33-34 “…‘Lord, with You I am ready to go both to prison and to death!’
34 And He (Jesus) said, ‘I say to you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”

  Then Jesus led His disciples to the Mount of Olives to pray, and then Judas brought the chief priests and officers of the temple to arrest Jesus.  As Jesus was arrested and led away to the house of the high priest, Peter followed at a distance.  (Luke 22:39-54)

  Now we are going to “watch” as Peter fulfills the prophecy of denying Jesus three times.  It is very early in the morning, so early the sun has not yet risen on the new day.

1st Denial
(NASB) Luke 22:55-57 “After they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.
56 And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, ‘This man was with Him too.’
57 But he denied it, saying, ‘Woman, I do not know Him.’”
2nd Denial
(NASB) Luke 22:58 “A little later, another saw him and said, ‘You are one of them too!’  But Peter said, ‘Man, I am not!’”
3rd Denial
(NASB) Luke 22:59-60 “After about an hour had passed, another man began to insist, saying, ‘Certainly this man also was with Him, for he is a Galilean too.’
60 But Peter said, ‘Man, I do not know what you are talking about.’  Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.”

  1 – 2 – 3 – three times Peter denied knowing Jesus, just as Jesus prophesied he would. 
Then a rooster crowed…just as Jesus said it would. 
(NASB) Luke 22:61 “The Lord turned and looked at Peter.  And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, ‘Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.’”

  And Peter, how did Peter then react when he heard that rooster and when Jesus turned and looked at him?
(NASB) Luke 22:62 “And he went out and wept bitterly.”

  Bitter weeping could be from remorse or it could be from repentance.  For Simon Peter, we know that Jesus prayed that “when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”  (Luke 22:32)  Peter repented at some point.  He was forgiven of his sin of denying Jesus.  You also can be forgiven for having denied Jesus in the past.