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Contradictions About Peter’s Denials and Rooster Crowing?

Contradictions About Peter’s Denials and Rooster Crowing?

Skeptics and critics have claimed the gospels contradict about Peter’s denials rooster crowing in regard to Jesus’ prediction. Did Jesus predict one or two rooster crowings? Were there one or two rooster crows? Here is the alleged “contradiction”:

What did Jesus say about Peter’s denial?
(a) “The cock will not crow till you have denied me three times” (John 13:38).
(b) “Before the cock crows twice you will deny me three times” (Mark 14:30). When the cock crowed
once, the three denials were not yet complete (see Mark 14:72). Therefore prediction (a) failed. read more

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