60 But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are saying!” Immediately, while he was still speaking,1 the rooster crowed.
61 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then aPeter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, b“Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”
And he went out and wept bitterly (kai ecelqwn ecw eklausen pikrwv). A few old Latin documents omit this verse which is genuine in Matthew 26:75. It may be an insertion here from there, but the evidence for the rejection is too slight. It is the ingressive aorist (eklausen), he burst into tears. "Bitter" is a common expression for tears in all languages and in all hearts.
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