John 2

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

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

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

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

⁷Jesus told [the servants], “Fill the jars with water. So they filled them to [the] brim.

⁸“Now draw [some] out, He said, “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 know where it was {from}, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then [he] called the bridegroom [aside]

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!”

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

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

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

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

¹⁵[So] 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.

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

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for 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?”

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

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

²¹But [Jesus] 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.

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

²⁴But Jesus {did} not entrust Himself to them, for He knew [them] all.

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