Mark 14:72 Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he began to weep.

How soon after Peter’s third denial does the rooster crow a second time?

“Immediately” (Mark 14:72)

·      When the rooster crows a second time, who turns and looks at Peter?

“And the Lord turned and looked at Peter“ (Luke 22:61a).

When the rooster crows a second time, what does Peter remember?

“…how Jesus had made the remark to him, ‘Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times’” (Mark 14:72).

·      When had Jesus previously revealed Peter’s denials?

After the Lord’s Supper when they had gone to the Mount of Olives, Jesus had told His disciples that they would all fall away. “But Peter said to Him, ‘Even though all may fall away, yet I will not.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Truly I say to you, that this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times'” (Mark 14:30).

·      How had Peter responded to Jesus’ words?

“But Peter kept saying insistently, ‘Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!’ And they all were saying the same thing also” (Mark 14:31).

How does Peter respond after the rooster crows and he remembers Jesus’ prediction of his three denials?

“And he began to weep” (Mark 14:72).

“And he went out and wept bitterly” (Matt 26:75; Luke 22:62).

   

Father, May You, the God of peace, sanctify us completely, that our whole spirit and soul and body will be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. When the Lord, Who tests our minds and hearts, turns to gaze at us and detects stubborn sin, may we be grieved into true repentance with godly sorrow. And may godly sorrow lead to renewed rejoicing in the Lord. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.