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peter : "jesus answered, 'i tell you, peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.'" [ ] it happened, [ ] and peter cried bitterly. this made the rooster a symbol for both vigilance and betrayal. earlier, jesus compares himself to a mother hen when talking about jerusalem
: "o jerusalem, jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often i have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing." [ ] in the sixth century, pope gregory i declared the rooster the emblem of christianity...
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