Francis Patrick Kenrick

It is alleged by modern Jews that cocks vrere not kept in the city of Jerusalem, but this statement is controverted. Even if admitted, it does not interfere with the prediction, since in the silence of night the cock-crow might be heard from an elevated situation, scarcely four hun- dred paces distant from the city-walls. Besides, whatever may have been the usage of the Jews, the Romans may have had cocks in coops, in the city itself. The second crowing was usually styled the time of cock-crowing. " Hence St. Mark says : Before the cock crow twice." Mark xiv. .30. John xiii. 30.