This story, also called The Book of the Rooster, is preserved by the Ethiopian church and is still read on the Thursday before Easter. In the Book of the Cock, on the night of the Last Supper, Akrosina, the wife of Simon the Pharisee, gives Jesus a well-cooked rooster. After Judas leaves, Jesus touches the rooster, and it comes to life.
Jesus tells the rooster to follow Judas and report what he does. The rooster returns and tells Jesus and the disciples about Judas’s plan to betray him. The rooster also mentions Paul of Tarsus as one who will later take part in these events. When the disciples hear this, they begin to weep.
Then Jesus sends the rooster to the sky, where it will stay for a thousand years.
A similar story exists in a fragment written in Sahidic Coptic. In that version, the rooster’s return to life symbolizes Christ’s resurrection.
See also Apocrypha.