Immediately a cock crowed a second time, and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, ‘Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.’ And he broke down and wept.
‘Then I will pour out a spirit , of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.
I have surely heard Ephraim moaning, ‘You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined like an untrained calf. Take me back, so that I can return, for you, Lord, are my God.
Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, ‘Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.’