{"id":23109,"date":"2025-06-24T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=23109"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:35:30","slug":"john-1338-did-the-cock-crow-once-or-twice-before-peters-third-denial-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/john-1338-did-the-cock-crow-once-or-twice-before-peters-third-denial-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"John 13:38 – Did the cock crow once or twice before Peter\u2019s third denial of Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem:<\/strong> Did the cock crow<\/picture> once or twice before Peter\u2019s third denial of Jesus? Matthew 26:34-35, 74-75; Luke 22:34,60-62; John 13:38 and Mark 14:30.
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  1. Denies before cock crows <\/strong>\n
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    1. Mathew 26:34,74-75, \u201cJesus said to him, \u201cTruly I say to you that this very night, before a cock crows, you shall deny Me three times\u202674 Then he began to curse and swear, \u201cI do not know the man!\u201d And immediately a cock crowed. 75 And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, \u201cBefore a cock crows, you will deny Me three times.\u201d And he went out and wept bitterly.\u201d<\/li>\n
    2. Luke 22:34,60-62, \u201cAnd He said, \u201cI say to you, Peter, the cock will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me . . . .60 But Peter said, \u201cMan, I do not know what you are talking about.\u201d And immediately, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed. 61 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, \u201cBefore a cock crows today, you will deny Me three times.\u201d 62 And he went out and wept bitterly.\u201d<\/li>\n
    3. John 13:38, \u201cJesus answered, \u201cWill you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a cock shall not crow, until you deny Me three times.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    4. Denies before cock crows twice<\/strong>\n
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      1. Mark 14:30, \u201cAnd Jesus said to him, \u201cTruly I say to you, that you yourself this very night, before a cock crows twice, shall three times deny Me\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        If a cock crows a second time, then it has crowed once before. The problem is that in Mark, after Peter denies the Lord for the third time (Mark 14:71), immediately a cock crows a second time (v. 72). The other gospels tell us that after Peter\u2019s third denial a cock then crows. How do we reconcile this difficulty?<\/p>\n

        Mark does not mention when the cock crowed the first time. Therefore, it is possible that after Peter\u2019s third denial, the cock then crowed twice; that is, two times in a row. This is logically possible and does not necessitate a contradiction.<\/p>\n

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        Problem: Did the cock crow once or twice before Peter\u2019s third denial of Jesus? Matthew 26:34-35, 74-75; Luke 22:34,60-62; John 13:38 and Mark 14:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-proof","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}