John 2
2
Jesus Changes Water Into Wine
1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Woman, # 2:4 The Greek for Woman does not denote any disrespect. why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.#2:6 Or from about 75 to about 115 liters
7Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
12After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
13When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”#2:17 Psalm 69:9
18The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
23Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.#2:23 Or in him 24But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. 25He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
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John 2
2
1And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,
2and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;
3and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, ‘Wine they have not;’
4Jesus saith to her, ‘What — to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.’
5His mother saith to the ministrants, ‘Whatever he may say to you — do.’
6And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.
7Jesus saith to them, ‘Fill the water-jugs with water;’ and they filled them — unto the brim;
8and he saith to them, ‘Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;’ and they bare.
9And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom,
10and saith to him, ‘Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.’
11This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;
12after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.
13And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the moneychangers sitting,
15and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,
16and to those selling the doves he said, ‘Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.’
17And his disciples remembered that it is written, ‘The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;’
18the Jews then answered and said to him, ‘What sign dost thou shew to us — that thou dost these things?’
19Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’
20The Jews, therefore, said, ‘Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?’
21but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;
22when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.
23And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;
24and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all [men],
25and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.
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