Bible fact · Direct biblical statement
The rooster crowed twice
Jesus told Peter that before the rooster crowed twice he would deny him three times; Mark records it happened. Mark 14:30Mark 14:72
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Jesus told Peter, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." Peter insisted he would not. Mark 14:29–31
After Peter denied knowing Jesus a third time, "the rooster crowed the second time", and Peter remembered and wept. Mark 14:66–72
Matthew, Luke and John mention the rooster crowing without "twice"; only Mark records two crowings. Matthew 26:74–75Luke 22:60–62John 18:27
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Mark 14:30 WEB
30Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
Mark 14:72 WEB
72The 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.
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Jesus said Peter would say three times that he did not know him before a rooster crowed twice. It happened, and Peter cried. Later Jesus forgave him.