⁷² Immediately the rooster crowed the second time.^[a] Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice^[b] you will disown me three times.”^(A) And he broke down and wept.

¹⁷ “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!