(New International Version)
John 2
Jesus Changes Water to Wine
1On the third daya 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 was gone,
Jesus' mother said to him,
"They have no more wine."
4"Woman, why do you involve me?"
Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come."
5His mother said to the servants,
"Do whatever he tells you."
6Nearby stood six stone water jars,
the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,
each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[a]
7Jesus said to the servants,
"Fill the jars with water";
so they filled them to the brim.
8Then he told them,
"Now draw some out
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 realize where it had come from,
though the servants who had drawn the water knew.
Then he called the bridegroom aside
10and said,
"Everyone brings out the choice wine first
and then the cheaper wine after the guests
have had too much to drink;
but you
have saved the best till now."
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Who sells the cheap stuff
to fellow people?
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11This,
the first of his miraculous signs,
Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee.
He thus revealed his glory,
and his disciples put their faith in him.
Jesus Clears the Temple
12After thishe went down to Capernaum
with his mother and brothers and his disciples.
There they stayed for a few days.
13When it was almost time for the Passover,
Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14In the temple courts
he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves,
and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
15So he made a whip out of cords,
and drove all out from the temple area,
both sheep and cattle;
he scattered the coins of the money changers
and overturned their tables.
16To those who sold doves he said,
"Get these out of here!
How dare you turn
my Father's house into a market!"
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How dare you turn
my Father's house
into a market !
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17His disciples remembered that it is written:
"Zeal for your house will consume me."[b]
18Then the Jews demanded of him,
"What miraculous sign can you show us
to prove your authority to do all this?"
19Jesus answered them,
" Destroy this temple ,
and I will raise it again in three days."
20The Jews replied,
"It has taken forty-six years
to build this temple,
and you are going to raise it in three days?"
21But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
22After he was raised from the dead,
his disciples recalled what he had said.
Then they believed the Scripture and
the words that Jesus had spoken.
23Now while he was in Jerusalem
at the Passover Feast, many people
saw the miraculous signs he was doing
and believed in his name.[c]
24But Jesus would not trust them,
for he knew all men.
25He did not need
man's testimony about man,
for
he knew what was in a man.
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- what is in a man?
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