And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

And should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up he knoweth not how.

Jesus saith to him, Verily I say to thee, That thou to-day, this night, before the cock crow twice, wilt deny me thrice.

But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou meanest. And he went out into the porch, and the cock crew.

And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus had said to him, Before the cock crow twice, thou wilt deny me thrice. And he covered his head and wept.