Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

And in that very moment, away behind in some far corner of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed reckoning nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.

Learn one thing from a lion; one from a crane; four a cock; five from a crow; six from a dog; and three from an ass.

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.