Our good ole Logos HAS SO MUCH in it. This is from the coptic apocryphal fragments (James). It combines the participation of animals, and also a critical piece of information completely ignored by the gospels: it was Judas' WIFE that caused the whole problem (at the instigation of Satan yet again). Also Paul of Tarsus was a critical player as well. If we attended the Abyssinian church we'd already know this.
Read in the Abyssinian Church on Maundy Thursday:
"After these things Akrosina, the wife of Simon the Pharisee, brought a rooster cut up with a knife, put it in a magnificent dish, and set it on the table before our Lord. Jesus said, ‘My time is at hand’. He blessed the bread and gave it to Judas. Satan entered into him and he went out—without receiving the blessing of Jesus.
Jesus touched the slain rooster and it stood up whole. He bade it follow Judas and see what he did, and return and report it: he endowed it with human speech. It followed Judas home: his wife urged him to betray Jesus. He went to the temple. The dialogue with the Jews is reported, and Paul of Tarsus, ‘son of Josue Almason, son of Cadafanâ’, a rough man, says, ‘Now, thou, deliver him into my hands without error’.
The rooster returned to Bethany, and sat before Jesus and wept bitterly, and told all the story. The disciples wept. Jesus dismissed the rooster to mount up into the sky for a thousand years. "
So, in theory, the rooster climbed down several centuries back.
