“knocking” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word knocking appears 3 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 3 matching verses are shown below.
- Canticle of Canticles 5:2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.
- Luke 11:8 Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
- Acts 12:16 But Peter continued knocking. And when they had opened, they saw him and were astonished.