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.

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