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Awakening to Human Weakness
“...we must take note of …Peter’s denial of Jesus. John recalls, with the Synoptics, that there were three denials and that it all ended with a cockcrow. The consistent emphasis on the cockcrow in all the Gospels elevates it, I think, to a symbolic level of meaning. In the days before alarm clocks, most people rose at dawn when the cocks began to crow. The cockcrow [in the Gospels] should be recognized, therefore as an ‘awakening’ of Peter to the reality of his human weakness.” pg 13
From “A Mystical Portrait of Jesus: New Perspective on John’s Gospel”,
By Demetrius R. Dumm, O.S.B.