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Original Douay-Rheims Bible (1582/1609)

John 2

1And the third day there was a marriage made in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.

2And Jesus also was called, and his Disciples to the marriage.

3And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.

4And Jesus saith to her: What is to me and thee woman? My hour cometh not yet.

5His mother saith to the ministers: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.

6And there were set there six water-pots of stone, according to the purification of the Jews, holding every one two or three measures.

7Jesus saith to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the top.

8And Jesus saith to them: Draw now, and carry to the chief steward. And they carried it.

9And after the chief steward tasted the water made wine, and knew not whence it was, but the ministers knew that had drawn the water; the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,

10and saith to him: Every man first setteth the good wine, and when they have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.

11This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee: and he manifested his glory, and his Disciples believed in him.

12After this he went down to Capharnaum himself and his mother, and his brethren, and his Disciples; and there they remained not many days.

13And the Pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem:

14and he found in the Temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the bankers sitting.

15And when he had made as it were a whip of little cords, he cast them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the bankers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.

16And to them that sold doves, he said: Take away these things hence, and make not the house of my Father, a house of merchandise.

17And his Disciples remembered that it is written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me.

18The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign doest thou shew us, that thou doest these things?

19Jesus answered and said to them: Dissolve this temple, and in three days I will raise it.

20The Jews therefore said: In forty and six years was this temple built, & wilt thou raise it in three days?

21But he spake of the temple of his body.

22Therefore when he was risen again from the dead, his Disciples remembered, that he said this, and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus did say.

23And when he was at Jerusalem in the Pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did.

24But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, for that he knew all,

25and because it was not needful for him that any should give testimony of man; for he knew what was in man.