Mark 14:72 — Community Reflections

MARK 14:72 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“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.”

Immediately the rooster crowed the second time. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him: before the rooster crows twice you will disown me three times. And he broke down and wept — the second rooster crow triggers Peter's memory of the specific prediction. And he broke down and wept (epibalon eklaiein) — the Greek is uncertain but communicates violent, uncontrolled weeping. The man who declared he would die rather than deny has denied three times before dawn. The weeping is not yet repentance but the first movement toward it — the grief that precedes the restoration of John 21.

Church Fathers on Mark 14:72

Concerning the temptation of Peter, which happened during the injuries mentioned, all the Evangelists do not speak in the same order. For Luke first relates the temptation of Peter, then these injuries of the Lord; but John begins to speak of the temptation of Peter, and then puts in some things concerning our Lord’s ill-treatment, and adds, that He was sent from there to Caiaphas the High Priest, and then he goes back to unfold the temptation of Peter, which he had begun.
Augustine · 4th century

But what can be meant by his being first recognized by a woman, when men were more able to know him, if it be not that that sex might be seen to sin in the death of our Lord, and that sex be redeemed by His Passion?
Bede · 8th century

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.
Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century

Read all 10 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain

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