John 2
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The First Sign: Turning Water into Wine
1On the third day a wedding took place in Cana # Jn 2:11; 4:46; 21:2 of Galilee. # Mt 17:22 Jesus’ mother # Mt 1:16 was there, and 2Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”
4“What has this concern of yours to do with Me, # Or You and I see things differently ; lit What to Me and to you ; Mt 8:29; Mk 1:24; 5:7; Lk 8:28 # 2Sm 16:10; 19:22 woman? ” # Jn 19:26 Jesus asked. “My hour # The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 7:30; 8:20; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1 has not yet come.”
5“Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.
6Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. # Lv 13–14; Heb 1:3 Each contained 20 or 30 gallons. # Lit 2 or 3 measures
7“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. 8Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.” # Lit ruler of the table ; perhaps master of the feast, or headwaiter And they did.
9When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from — though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom 10and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people have drunk freely, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”
11Jesus performed this first sign # Lit this beginning of the signs ; Jn 4:54; 20:30. Seven miraculous signs occur in John’s Gospel and are so noted in the headings. in Cana # Jn 2:1; 21:2 of Galilee. # Mt 17:22 He displayed # 2Co 4:11; 1Jn 1:2 His glory, # Mk 10:37; Jn 17:24 and His disciples believed in Him.
12After this, He went down to Capernaum, # Lk 10:15 together with His mother, His brothers, # Mt 12:46-50; Mk 3:31-35; 6:3; Lk 8:19-21; Ac 1:14 and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.
Cleansing the Temple Complex
13The Jewish Passover # Ex 12:11 was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. # Mt 23:37 14In the temple complex # Mt 21:12-13; Mk 11:15-17; Lk 19:45-46 He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there. 15After making a whip out of cords, # Ac 27:32 He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheep # Mt 7:15 and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables. 16He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s # Mt 5:16; 11:27; Jn 8:42 house # Lk 11:51; Jn 2:17 into a marketplace! ” # Lit a house of business # Jr 7:11; Zch 14:21; Mal 3:1-3
17And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal # Nm 25:13 for Your house will consume # Gl 5:15 Me. # Ps 69:9 # Ps 69:9
18So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things? ”
19Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, # Lk 1:21 and I will raise it up in three days.” # Lk 9:22
20Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days? ” # Mk 15:29
21But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body. # Mt 26:26; 27:52,58; Mk 14:22; 15:43; Lk 12:4; 22:19; 23:52,55; Jn 19:31,38,40; 20:12; 1Co 10:16; 11:23-26; Heb 10:5,10; 1Pt 2:24 22So when He was raised from the dead, # Mt 17:9; Rv 20:12 His disciples remembered that He had said this. # Jn 14:26 And they believed the Scripture # Mt 26:54; 2Pt 1:20 and the statement Jesus had made.
23While He was in Jerusalem # Mt 23:37 at the Passover Festival, # Jn 5:1 many trusted in His name # Jn 10:25; 1Jn 3:23 when they saw the signs He was doing. 24Jesus, however, would not entrust Himself to them, since He knew them all 25and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man. # Jr 17:10
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Yoḥanan (John) 2
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1And on the third day there was a wedding in Qanah of Galil, and the mother of יהושע was there.
2And both יהושע and His taught ones were invited to the wedding.
3And when they were short of wine, the mother of יהושע said to Him, “They have no wine.”
4יהושע said to her, “Woman, what is that to Me and to you? My hour has not yet come.”
5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He says to you.”
6And there were six stone water-jugs standing there, according to the mode of cleansing of the Yehuḏim, each holding two or three measures.
7יהושע said to them, “Fill the water-jugs with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
8And He said to them, “Now draw out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.
9But when the master of the feast had tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from – though the servants who had drawn the water knew – the master of the feast called the bridegroom,
10and said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when they have drunk, then that which is poorer. You have kept the good wine until now.”
11This, the beginning of the signs, יהושע did in Qanah of Galil, and manifested His esteem. And His taught ones believed in Him.
12After this He went down to Kephar Naḥum, He and His mother, and His brothers, and His taught ones. And there they stayed not many days.
13And the Pĕsaḥ of the Yehuḏim was near, and יהושע went up to Yerushalayim.
14And He found in the Set-apart Place those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting.
15And having made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the Set-apart Place, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the moneychangers’ coins and overturned the tables.
16And He said to those selling doves, “Take these away! Do not make the house of My Father a house of merchandise!”
17And His taught ones remembered that it was written, “The ardour for Your house has eaten Me up.”# Psa. 69:9
18And the Yehuḏim answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You are doing these?”
19יהושע answered and said to them, “Destroy this Dwelling Place, and in three days I shall raise it.”
20Then the Yehuḏim said, “It took forty-six years to build this Dwelling Place, and You are going to raise it in three days?”
21But He spoke about the Dwelling Place of His body.
22So, when He was raised from the dead, His taught ones remembered that He said this to them. And they believed the Scripture and the word which יהושע had said.
23And when He was in Yerushalayim at the Pĕsaḥ, at the festival, many believed in His Name when they saw the signs which He was doing.
24But יהושע was not entrusting Himself to them, because He knew all men,
25and had no need that anyone should witness of man, for He knew what was in man.
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