John 2
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The Wedding at Cana
1#Jn 4:46; 21:2On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there. 2Both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
4#Jn 7:6; 7:30Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”
5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
6#Jn 3:25Six water pots made of stone were sitting there, used for ceremonial cleansing by the Jews, containing twenty to thirty gallons#Gk. 2 to 3 metretes, or 75 to 115 liters. each.
7Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
8Then He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the master of the feast.”
And they took it. 9#Jn 4:46When the master of the feast tasted the water that had been turned into wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who drew the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom, 10and he said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and after men have drunk freely, then the poor wine is served. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
11#Jn 1:14; 3:2This, the first of His signs, Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and He revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
12#Mt 12:46; 4:13After this He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples went down to Capernaum. They remained there a few days.
The Cleansing of the Temple
Mt 21:12–17; Mk 11:15–17; Lk 19:45–48
13#Lk 2:41; Jn 11:55The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14#Mk 11:15; Lk 19:45–46In the temple He found those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there. 15When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. He poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. 16#Lk 2:49He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” 17#Ps 69:9His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”#Ps 69:9.
18#Jn 6:30Then the Jews said to Him, “What sign do You show us, seeing that You do these things?”
19#Mt 27:40; Mk 14:58Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” 21#1Co 6:19; Jn 1:14But He was speaking concerning the temple of His body. 22#Jn 12:16; 14:26Therefore, when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them. And they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
Jesus Knows All Men
23#Jn 3:2Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24#Mt 9:4; Jn 5:42But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men, 25and did not need anyone to bear witness of man, for He knew what was in man.
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John 2
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From Water to Wine
1-3Three days later there was a wedding in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus and his disciples were guests also. When they started running low on wine at the wedding banquet, Jesus’ mother told him, “They’re just about out of wine.”
4Jesus said, “Is that any of our business, Mother—yours or mine? This isn’t my time. Don’t push me.”
5She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”
6-7Six stoneware water pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus ordered the servants, “Fill the pots with water.” And they filled them to the brim.
8“Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host,” Jesus said, and they did.
9-10When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn’t know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom, “Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings in the cheap stuff. But you’ve saved the best till now!”
11This act in Cana of Galilee was the first sign Jesus gave, the first glimpse of his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
12After this he went down to Capernaum along with his mother, brothers, and disciples, and stayed several days.
Tear Down This Temple . . .
13-14When the Passover Feast, celebrated each spring by the Jews, was about to take place, Jesus traveled up to Jerusalem. He found the Temple teeming with people selling cattle and sheep and doves. The loan sharks were also there in full strength.
15-17Jesus put together a whip out of strips of leather and chased them out of the Temple, stampeding the sheep and cattle, upending the tables of the loan sharks, spilling coins left and right. He told the dove merchants, “Get your things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a shopping mall!” That’s when his disciples remembered the Scripture, “Zeal for your house consumes me.”
18-19But the Jews were upset. They asked, “What credentials can you present to justify this?” Jesus answered, “Tear down this Temple and in three days I’ll put it back together.”
20-22They were indignant: “It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and you’re going to rebuild it in three days?” But Jesus was talking about his body as the Temple. Later, after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this. They then put two and two together and believed both what was written in Scripture and what Jesus had said.
23-25During the time he was in Jerusalem, those days of the Passover Feast, many people noticed the signs he was displaying and, seeing they pointed straight to God, entrusted their lives to him. But Jesus didn’t entrust his life to them. He knew them inside and out, knew how untrustworthy they were. He didn’t need any help in seeing right through them.
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