Mark 14:72

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

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WEBBE

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the words that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

BSB

And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

KJV

And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.

ASV

And straightway the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word, how that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.

BBE

And in the same minute, the cock gave a second cry. And it came to Peter's mind how Jesus had said to him, Before the cock's second cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And at this thought he was overcome with weeping.

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καὶ kai And G2532 εὐθὺς euthus immediately G2112 ἐκ ek for G1537 δευτέρου deuterou [the] second time G1208 ἀλέκτωρ alektōr a rooster G220 ἐφώνησεν ephōnēsen crowed G5455 καὶ kai And G2532 ἀνεμνήσθη anemnēsthē remembered G363 ὁ ho (the) G3588 Πέτρος Petros Peter G4074 τὸ to the G3588 ῥῆμα rhēma declaration G4487 ὡς hōs [was] like G5613 οὖ ou which G3739 εἶπεν eipen had said G2036 αὐτῷ autō to him G846 ὁ ho (the) G3588 Ἰησοῦς Iēsous Jesus G2424 ὅτι hoti that G3754 πρὶν prin Before G4250 ἀλέκτορα alektora [the] rooster G220 φωνῆσαι phōnēsai crowing G5455 δίς dis twice G1364 τρίς tris three times G5151 με me Me G3165 ἀπαρνήσῃ aparnēsē you will deny G533 καὶ kai And G2532 ἐπιβαλὼν epibalōn having broken down G1911 ἔκλαιεν.¶ eklaien he was weeping G2799

The early church

(ubi sup.) But the Scripture is wont to point out a Sacrament of the causes of things, by the state of the time; thus Peter, who denied at midnight, repented at cock crow; wherefore it is added: And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word which Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he began to weep.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
For tears brought Peter by penitence to Christ. Confounded then be the Novatians, who say that he who sins after receiving baptism, is not received to the remission of his sin. For behold Peter, who had also received the Body and Blood of the Lord, is received by penitence; for the failings of saints are written, that if we fall by want of caution, we also may be able to run back through their example, and hope to be relieved by penitence.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Peter when he had not the Spirit yielded and lost courage at the voice of a girl, though with the Spirit he was not afraid before princes and kings. But in a mystical sense, the first maid means the wavering, the second, the assent, the third man is the act. This is the threefold denial which the remebrance of the word of the Lord washes away through tears. The cock then crows for us when some preacher up our hearts by repentance to compunction. We then begin to weep, when we are set on fire within by the spark of knowledge, and we go forth, when we cast out what we were within.
Pseudo-Jerome · d. 9999Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 66–72

Peter's denying Christ began by keeping at a distance from him. Those that are shy of godliness, are far in the way to deny Christ. Those who think it dangerous to be in company with Christ's disciples, because thence they may be drawn in to suffer for him, will find it much more dangerous to be in company with his enemies, because there they may be drawn in to sin against him. When Christ was admired and flocked after, Peter readily owned him; but will own no relation to him now he is deserted and despised. Yet observe, Peter's repentance was very speedy. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall; and let him that has fallen think of these things, and of his own offences, and return to the Lord with weeping and supplication, seeking forgiveness, and to be raised up by the Holy Spirit.

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