Mark 14:72

And straightway the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word, how that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.

The lone rooster crowing only a little while earlier while Peter was on the porch was then followed by another; and, after the manner of such things in all ages, the whole city was soon vibrating with the full cock-crow, ten thousand roosters heralding the morning. It shook Peter, and his great heart ached for what he had done. He went out alone into the darkness to weep; and there is a parable of all who ever denied the Lord. For them also, it is the darkness and sadness. It is not fair to the memory of this grand apostle to leave the narrative here without recalling the triple confession that he made at the sea of Tiberius. Ever afterward, his life was worthy of the vows of loyalty made earlier in that tragic evening; and one should behold in the facts related here, not any particular culpability in Peter, but the universal weakness of all men. Peter would yet live to go both to prison and to death for Jesus; but he would do so in a strength not at that time available. The Prince of Life was, for a little while, under the domination of the powers of darkness; and it can be no wonder that Peter was temporarily powerless to untangle himself from the snare of the devil into which he had,been inadvertently drawn by the circumstances of that awful night.