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Mk 14:30c ... "before a rooster sounds twice, ..."

The fifth phrase has these 5 dialog words, ... prin ē dis alektora fōnēsai, ("before the twice a rooster sounds, ...").

The 5 words are top down. The future second cockcrow, yet to sound, is an empty christ circle. The commentary book Sacra Pagina Mark says Mark does not use the technical term for a cock's crow (kokkyzein) but instead uses "fōnēsai" which can mean an animal or a human sound, such as a Roman soldier blowing a trumpet signaling changing the guard at the night's watch. The words "before a cock sounds twice" means after a cock sounds once. The first "cockcrow" of the Roman night guard was 3 am. The second cockcrow was 6 am, dawn. The precise time of the prophesy is signified by the word "fōnēsai" (sounds) which is dead center to the trumpet sound of the second cockcrow which hasn't sounded. The diagram shows if Simon does hear a cockcrow, he will have denied Jesus three times before 3 am, the sound of the first cockcrow.

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