Mark 14:66-72

Peter was still down in the courtyard. See notes on Matthew 26:69-75. And he broke down and cried. The Greek uses a verb which shows continuous actions, to emphasize Peter's sorrow. Geikie writes: "It is a touching and beautiful tradition, true to the sincerity of his repentance, if not as a historical reality, that, all his life long, the remembrance of this night never left him, and that, morning by morning, he rose at the hour when the look of his Master had entered his soul, to pray once more for pardon." Compare Jesus' prophecy (Luke 22:32), and the event of John 21:15-17.