Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.
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Three days later a wedding took place in the city of Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.
2 And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.
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Jesus and his disciples had been invited too.
3 And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.
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When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They're out of wine."
4 And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come.
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Jesus said to her, "Why did you come to me? My time has not yet come."
5 His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.
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His mother told the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."
6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.
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Six stone water jars were there. They were used for Jewish purification rituals. Each jar held 18 to 27 gallons.
7 Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
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Jesus told the servers, "Fill the jars with water." The servers filled the jars to the brim.
8 And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it.
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Jesus said to them, "Pour some, and take it to the person in charge." The servers did as they were told.
9 And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water: the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,
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The person in charge tasted the water that had become wine. He didn't know where it had come from, although the servers who had poured the water knew. The person in charge called the groom
10 And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.
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and said to him, "Everyone serves the best wine first. When people are drunk, the host serves cheap wine. But you have saved the best wine for now."
11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
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Cana in Galilee was the place where Jesus began to perform miracles. He made his glory public there, and his disciples believed in him.
12 After this, he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples: and they remained there not many days.
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After this, Jesus, his mother, brothers, and disciples went to the city of Capernaum and stayed there for a few days.
13 And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14 And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
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He found those who were selling cattle, sheep, and pigeons in the temple courtyard. He also found moneychangers sitting there.
15 And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
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He made a whip from small ropes and threw everyone with their sheep and cattle out of the temple courtyard. He dumped the moneychangers' coins and knocked over their tables.
16 And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
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He told those who sold pigeons, "Pick up this stuff, and get it out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"
17 And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
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His disciples remembered that Scripture said, "Devotion for your house will consume me."
18 The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
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The Jews reacted by asking Jesus, "What miracle can you show us to justify what you're doing?"
19 Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.
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Jesus replied, "Tear down this temple, and I'll rebuild it in three days."
20 The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
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The Jews said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple. Do you really think you're going to rebuild it in three days?"
21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
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But the temple Jesus spoke about was his own body.
22 When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this: and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had said.
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After he came back to life, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and this statement that Jesus had made.
23 Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did.
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While Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover festival, many people believed in him because they saw the miracles that he performed.
24 But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all men,
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Jesus, however, was wary of these believers. He understood people
25 And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.
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and didn't need anyone to tell him about human nature. He knew what people were really like.
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