With that said, I’m still willing to contend that Jesus prediction in Mark was that the cock would crow twice, once before daylight and once at daylight, and that Peter would deny him three times before the second crowing. Matthew, Luke and John only talk about the second crowing (the one that heralded the dawn) and the prediction of it.

:)

(Though we are later (14:72) told that the cock crowed a second time, which seems to make this dubious as a solution.

The cock crowing event described in the Mark account above is the first of the two crowings Jesus predicted that Peter would hear. It occurred well before the beginning of Good Friday when the second crowing (which is also the crowing referenced by Matthew, Luke and John) occurred.

The sequence of crowings matches the sequences in the predictions recorded by each author.

The prediction that Luke records says “before the cock crows this day.” With “this day”, I take Jesus to be referring to the morning of Good Friday (on Maundy Thursday, when he said it, the cock had already crowed many, many times). The prediction, as Matthew and John record it, does not mention “this day.” But they are also reporting the same prediction that Luke reports (because the crowing they later reference is, as with Luke, the first crowing of Good Friday).

But the prediction that Mark records says that Peter’s three denials would occur before the cock crows twice and does not mention this day. I take Jesus to be saying that before Peter heard the cock crow twice, he would deny Jesus three times.*

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*-As I said in the earlier thread on the predictions, Jesus made both predictions in a single predictive episode. Matthew, Luke and John recorded the prediction about the first crowing of Good Friday. Mark recorded the prediction about the next two crowings that Peter would hear.