Mark 14:30
“Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.”
King James Version
Jesus predicts that before the rooster crows twice that same night, Peter will deny Him three times — fulfilled to the letter within hours (Mk. 14:66-72), against Peter's own vehement protest.
Fulfillment References
Mark 14:66-72 Luke 22:31-34 John 18:15-27
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalThe Lord's exact foreknowledge of Peter's fall — and His prayer that Peter's faith fail not (Lk. 22:32) — displays divine omniscience joined to shepherding mercy.
Jewish(No traditional Jewish interpretation; the passage is internal to the Gospel narrative.)
CatholicChrist foreknows Peter's fall and his restoration; the scene grounds Peter's later commission (Jn. 21:15-17).
ProtestantA short-range, falsifiable prediction fulfilled the same night — evidence of genuine predictive knowledge, preserved despite embarrassing the church's chief apostle.
DispensationalDemonstrates the precision of Christ's prophetic word down to the detail of the double cock-crow.
AcademicMark's unique 'twice' detail (14:30, 72) is often linked to the tradition that Mark preserves Peter's own preaching (Papias, in Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.39); the criterion of embarrassment favors its authenticity.
Scholarship & Sources
The double cock-crow is discussed in France (Mark, NIGTC); the criterion-of-embarrassment argument for historicity appears across critical scholarship, e.g., John P. Meier (A Marginal Jew).
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