==Peter and Rooster==

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John 18:25-27 **
Peter denied Jesus twice, and the Rooster crowed once.
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Luke 22:56-60
Peter denied Jesus three times, and the Rooster crowed once.
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Mark 14:67-72**
Peter denied Jesus three times, and the Rooster crowed twice.
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Matthew 26:69-75**
Peter denied Jesus three times, and the Rooster crowed once.

According to Mark, the Rooster crowed twice.
According to John, Peter only denied Jesus twice
How can this be? Which one is true? Correct me if I’m wrong.
 
Artemus86 said:
John 18:25-27 **
Peter denied Jesus twice, and the Rooster crowed once.
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Luke 22:56-60
Peter denied Jesus three times, and the Rooster crowed once.
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Mark 14:67-72**
Peter denied Jesus three times, and the Rooster crowed twice.
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Matthew 26:69-75**
Peter denied Jesus three times, and the Rooster crowed once.

According to Mark, the Rooster crowed twice.
According to John, Peter only denied Jesus twice
How can this be? Which one is true? Correct me if I’m wrong.
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This is a good question, and I’m probably not qualified to answer it, but let me give a stab at it:

Peter denied Jesus three times, and the rooster crowed twice.
Jesus says in Mark 14:27, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

John includes all three denials: the first is John 18:15-18 (which it looks from your citations you may have overlooked), and the second and third are v. 25 and 27, respectively. So there’s total harmony there.

As for the rooster crowing, Jesus said it would crow twice. None of the Gospels actually contradict this. Mark is the only one really concerned with the minutiae of the prophesy and its fulfillment - the other Gospel writers sort of gloss over it, and omit details. One of the Bibles I use notes that in John’s version:
“No indication is given of Peter’s emotional state at this third denial (as in Matt 26:74 and Mark 14:71) or that he remembered that Jesus had foretold the denials (Matt 26:75, Mark 14:72 and Luke 22:61), or the bitter remorse Peter felt afterward (Matt 26:75, Mark 14:72, and Luke 22:62).”
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With that in mind, it should be expected that there’s some crystallization and some skipping of minor details. Hopefully,this response helps - your question was astute.
 
Hello Belloc…

What do you mean by astute? [sorry for my poor english]
 
Artemus86 said:
Hello Belloc…

What do you mean by astute? [sorry for my poor english]
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That’s ok. I meant it’s a smart, perceptive question. It’s good to compare the different versions like that, and to say, “here are four perspectives on the same event - what does the whole picture look like when these are combined?”
 
when looking at the scriptures like this, I think the event itself is more important then the details, there is few instances when all four Gospels have an event in common (usually it is just the Synoptics obviously), so probably this event happened as recorded. Now you also need to keep in mind that John is probably writing his Gospel probably not independent of the other three, but probably as supplementary (a lot of scholars think there is a link between Mark and John).

Now, the difference might be due to a scribal error sometime in the early Church. I would say also remember that the author are recalling these events, and remember this is a crazy time as Jesus is brought to trial and everything, so I would not expect John or Matthew (being Apostles) are not too concentrated on how many times the rooster crowed, since the prophecy was directed at Peter (whom Mark was his companion and recorded Peter’s version in the Gospel)
 
Pardon me to get a little off topic. I thought the cock crew after Peter denied three times in Luke, Matthew and Mark and twice in John. According to the New American, Jerusalem, Douay-Rheims, RSV-CE and even the Protestant KJV they all say cock and not rooster.What translation is being used?? Is this a Catholic translation???
 
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Pardon me to get a little off topic. I thought the cock crew after Peter denied three times in Luke, Matthew and Mark and twice in John. According to the New American, Jerusalem, Douay-Rheims, RSV-CE and even the Protestant KJV they all say cock and not rooster.What translation is being used?? Is this a Catholic translation???
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Actually, it is Mark that has the rooster crowing twice, at least in some manuscript traditions.

As for rooster/cock, older translations tend to use ‘cock’ while newer translations tend to use ‘rooster’, perhaps because of the connotations of the former word in modern-day (vulgar) slang to mean the male genitals.

By the way, Artemus86, John also has Peter denying Jesus thrice (three times), if you’ll look carefully.
 
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