Another failed prediction

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The book of John and the book of Mark seem to conflict over when the
rooster
would crow. Notice the following:

John 13:38, Jesus answered him, will you lay down your life for my sake?
Most
assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied
me
three times.

compare with:

Mark 14:66-68, Now as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant
girls of the high priest came.
And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You
also
was with Jesus of Nazareth."
But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you are
saying." And he went out on the porch, and a rooster crowed.

Notice that in John, the rooster was not supposed to crow until the third
denial and it appears that according to John 18:25-27 that is what
happened,
but when you read of the same event in the book of Mark, the rooster
crowed
after the first denial. The question is, which one is correct, if any???

The writers of John and Mark didn't seem to concerned about what the other
one wrote, as is the case with the resurrection accounts.

Joe

TERRY
There has been a lot of discussion about off topic items, so I will try to
stick to the required subject.  In Mark's account, it does not say when
the rooster crowed the first time.  Unless I miss it, it says that after
the third denial, the rooster immediately crowed the second time.  If each
Bible writers books were a carbon copy of the other Bible writers account,
then people might say they were merely copying one another. To me, this
merely shows the individuality of each Bible Writer.  Mark may have added
the point that the rooster would crow twice before the third denial, but
John, Luke and Matthew merely pointed out that after the 3rd denial the
rooster would crow, not specifying that it would crow twice.
However,..... however,  the entire point of the matter was not how many
times the rooster would crow, or whether it would crow after the first
denial or the second denial or the third denial.  The point of the matter
was, that the disciples were still weak in their faith and were going to
abandon Jesus, and despite Peter's firm assurances, he was going to deny
and abandon him also.

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