"He is only a hired servant, and the sheep are no care to him.

"Your life you will lay down for me? In solemn truth I tell you, the cock shall not crow before you have three times disowned me."

Peter again denied it; and at that very moment a cock crew.

"Feed my sheep," said Jesus. "In solemn truth I tell you that when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands for some one to gird you, and carry you where you do not wish to go."