<p>14:72 <i>And immediately the second time the cock crew. And Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: Before the cock crows twice, you shall deny me three times. And as he thought upon it, he wept</i>- It is only Mark who records the two cock crowings at the time of Peter&rsquo;s denial. Peter wished to quietly emphasize the exactness of fulfilment of the Lord&rsquo;s words about his denial. Mark / Peter likewise record Peter&rsquo;s words as: &ldquo;I neither know nor understand what you mean&rdquo;. The &lsquo;what&rsquo; can apply to both Jesus personally as well as the general &lsquo;being with&rsquo; Jesus. Peter is admitting that He had denied having any understanding at all of the Lord- the Lord whose knowledge he now preached. One can imagine Peter&rsquo;s voice quivering as he recounted his Gospel story. Note how Luke says that all the disciples slept in Gethsemane (Lk. 22:45); but Mark Peter records how only Peter, James and John slept (Mk. 14:37).</p><p>&quot;Peter remembered&quot; the Lord's words.<i>&nbsp;</i>The letters of Peter urge his readers to &ldquo;be mindful of the words which were spoken before&rdquo; (2 Pet. 3:2). Yet this is evidently alluding to the frequent references to the disciples being slow to &ldquo;remember&rdquo; s.w. &ldquo;mindful&rdquo; the words which their Lord had &ldquo;spoken before&rdquo; (Lk. 24:6,8; Jn. 2:17,22; 12:16). Indeed, the same word is used about Peter &lsquo;remembering&rsquo; s.w. &ldquo;be mindful&rdquo; all too late, the words which his Lord had &ldquo;spoken before&rdquo; to him (Mt. 26:75). So Peter was aware that his readers knew that he had not &lsquo;remembered&rsquo; the words his Lord had &ldquo;spoken before&rdquo; to&nbsp;<i>him</i>- and yet, knowing that, he exhorts his readers to &lsquo;remember&rsquo; or &lsquo;be mindful&rsquo; s.w. of words which had been previously spoken. His readers likely had memorized the Gospels by heart. And yet Peter asks them to learn from his mistake, not to be as slow to remember as the disciples had been, and he especially. This is the basis of powerful exhortation- a repentant life, not an appearance of sinlessness.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>