Luke 22:60

Man, I know not what thou sayest St Luke drops a veil over the -cursing and swearing" which accompanied this last denial (Matthew 26:74).

the cock crew Rather, a cock. It crew for the second time. Minute critics have imagined that they found a -difficulty" here because the Talmud says that cocks and hens, from their scratching in the dung, were regarded as unclean. But as to this the Talmud contradicts itself, since it often alludes to cocks and hens at Jerusalem (e.g. Berachdth,p. 27, 1). Moreover the cock might have belonged to the Roman soldiers in Fort Antonia.