NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 26:34

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Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

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Verse 34. Before the cock crow. [7] Saint Mark is more particular; before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. The sense seems to be, before the time that the cocks crow the second time, towards the morning. Witham.

Christ’s prayer and agony in the garden. He is seized, and carried before Annas and Caiphas

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