The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar. ²And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side. ⁸And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be healed. ⁹And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after these waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all things shall live to which the torrent shall come. ¹²And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.

²Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly. ³Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea. ⁵The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle. ⁶God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early. ⁸The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. ⁹Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth,

℟ The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful.

And 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 changers of money sitting. ¹⁵And 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. ¹⁶And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. ¹⁷And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. ¹⁸The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things? ¹⁹Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days? ²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body. ²²When 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.