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John 2

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

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

2 And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage. CCC

3 And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine. 1

4 And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come. Fathers

5 His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye. 2

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.

7 Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up 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.

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,

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.

11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. CCC

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.

13 And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

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.

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. CCC

17 And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. CCC

18 The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things? CCC

19 Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up. CCC · Fathers

20 The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days? CCC · Fathers

21 But he spoke of the temple of his body. CCC · Fathers

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. CCC

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.

24 But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all men,

25 And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.

Where our lessons quote this chapter

  1. Verses 3–5: Mary: honored, not worshiped
  2. Verse 5: Mary: honored, not worshiped

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text. The Catechism uses modern verse numbers, so these are listed by chapter.

  1. Verse 1CCC 495 CCC 519 CCC 692 CCC 1613 CCC 2618
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    • CCC 495 “Called in the Gospels "the mother of Jesus", Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before…”
    • CCC 519 “All Christ's riches "are for every individual and are everybody's property." Christ did not live his life for himself but for us,…”
    • CCC 692 “When he proclaims and promises the coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus calls him the "Paraclete," literally, "he who is called to…”
    • CCC 1613 “On the threshold of his public life Jesus performs his first sign - at his mother's request - during a wedding feast.…”
    • CCC 2618 “The Gospel reveals to us how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, The mother of Jesus asks her son for…”
  2. Verse 2CCC 605
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    • CCC 605 “At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God's love excludes no one: "So it is not…”
  3. Verse 4
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    • “mine hour is not yet come”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  4. Verse 11CCC 486 CCC 1335
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    • CCC 486 “The Father's only Son, conceived as man in the womb of the Virgin Mary, is "Christ", that is to say, anointed by…”
    • CCC 1335 “The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples…”
  5. Verse 16CCC 377 CCC 584
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    • CCC 377 “The "mastery" over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self.…”
    • CCC 584 “Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of…”
  6. Verse 17CCC 584
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    • CCC 584 “Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of…”
  7. Verse 18CCC 575 CCC 586 CCC 670 CCC 672
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    • CCC 575 “Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction", but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the…”
    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 670 “Since the Ascension God's plan has entered into its fulfilment. We are already at "the last hour". "Already the final age of…”
    • CCC 672 “Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by…”
  8. Verse 19CCC 586 CCC 994
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    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”

    • “He spake this, however," it is said, "of the temple of His body.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  9. Verse 20CCC 586 CCC 994 CCC 91
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    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”
    • CCC 91 “All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs…”

    • “He spake this, however," it is said, "of the temple of His body.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  10. Verse 21CCC 586 CCC 994
    Read the Catechism and Fathers
    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”

    • “He spake this, however," it is said, "of the temple of His body.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  11. Verse 22CCC 586 CCC 675 CCC 994
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    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 675 “Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”
  12. John 2:27 in modern BiblesCCC 91
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    • CCC 91 “All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs…”
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