John 2

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The Wedding at Cana

¹On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

¹And on the third day a wedding came to pass in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

²and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

²and Jesus also was invited, and His disciples, to the wedding.

³When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”

³And the wine having fallen short, the mother of Jesus says to Him, “They have no wine.”

⁴“Woman, what is that to you and to Me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

⁴And Jesus says to her, “What is it to Me and to you, woman? My hour is not yet come.”

⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

⁵His mother says to the servants, “Whatever He may say to you, do it.”

⁶Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.^a

⁶Now there were six stone water jars lying there, according to the purification of the Jews, having space for two or three metretae.

⁷Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.”

So they filled them to the brim.

⁷Jesus says to them, “Fill the water jars with water.” And they filled them up to the top.

⁸“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so,

⁸And He says to them, “Draw some out now and carry it to the master of the feast.” And they carried it.

⁹and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside

⁹And as the master of the feast tasted the water that has become wine, and he did not know from where it is—but the servants having drawn the water knew—the master of the feast calls the bridegroom

¹⁰and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”

¹⁰and says to him, “Every man first sets out the good wine, and when they might have become drunk, the inferior; you have kept the good wine until now.”

¹¹Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

¹¹This was the beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and He revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

¹²After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

¹²After this, He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples, and there they stayed not many days.

¹³When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹³And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴In the temple courts^a He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

¹⁴And He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting.

¹⁵So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

¹⁵And having made a whip out of cords, He cast out all from the temple, both sheep and oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned the tables.

¹⁶To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

¹⁶And to those selling the doves He said, “Take these from here! Do not make the house of My Father a house of trade!”

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”^a

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “The zeal of Your house will consume Me.”

¹⁸On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”

¹⁸Therefore the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us that You do these things?”

¹⁹Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

²⁰“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

²⁰Therefore the Jews said, “This temple was built in forty and six years, and You will raise it up in three days?”

²¹But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

²¹But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

²²After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

²²Therefore, when He was raised up from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus said.

²³While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.

²³And as He was in Jerusalem in the Passover, in the Feast, many believed in His name, beholding His signs that He was doing.

²⁴But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.

²⁴But Jesus Himself was not entrusting Himself to them, because of His knowing all,

²⁵He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

²⁵and because He had no need that anyone should testify about man, for He Himself knew what was in man.