Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 22:60-61

"But Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said unto him, Before the cock crow this day thou shalt deny me thrice." — Luke 22:60-61 (ASV)

And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter.

How that look must have pierced Peter through and through!

And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter.

God has all things in his hands, he has servants everywhere, and the cock will crow, by the secret movement of his providence, just when God wills; and there is, perhaps, as much of divine ordination about the crowing of a cock as about the ascending of an emperor to his throne.

Things are only little and great according to their significance; and God did not consider the crowing bird to be a small thing, since it was to bring a wanderer back to his Saviour, for, just as the cock crew, the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. That was a different look from the one which the girl had given him, but that look broke his heart.