John — Chapter 2

¹The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus` mother was there.

²Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

³When the wine ran out, Jesus` Mother said to him, "They have no wine."

⁴Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."

⁵His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."

⁶Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews` manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim.

⁸He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." They took it.

⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn`t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,

¹⁰and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"

¹¹This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory. His disciples believed in him.

¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and there they stayed not many days.

¹³The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

¹⁵He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers` money, and overthrew their tables.

¹⁶To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don`t make my Father`s house a marketplace!"

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

¹⁸The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show to us, seeing that you do these things?"

¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

²⁰The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"

²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body.

²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

²⁴But Jesus didn`t trust himself to them, because he knew all people,

²⁵and because he didn`t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.