John

¹ Two days after this there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was there.

² Jesus himself, too, with his disciples, was invited to the wedding.

³ And, when the wine ran short, his mother said to him, “They have no wine left.”

⁴ “What do you want with me?” answered Jesus. “My time has not come yet.”

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

⁶ There were standing there six stone water-jars, in accordance with the Jewish rule of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

⁷ Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the water-jars with water.”

⁸ And, when they had filled them to the brim, he added, “Now take some out, and carry it to the Master of the feast.” The servants did so.

⁹ And, when the Master of the feast had tasted the water which had now become wine, not knowing where it had come from – although the servants who had taken out the water knew –

¹⁰ He called the groom and said to him, “Everyone puts good wine on the table first, and inferior wine afterward, when his guests have drunk freely; but you have kept back the good wine until now!”

¹¹ This, the first sign of his mission, Jesus gave at Cana in Galilee, and by it revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

¹² After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum – he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; but they stayed there only a few days.

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

¹⁴ In the Temple Courts he found people who were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the money changers at their counters.

¹⁵ So he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the Temple Courts, and the sheep and bullocks as well; he scattered the money of the money changers, and overturned their tables,

¹⁶ and said to the pigeon-dealers, “Take these things away. Do not turn my Father’s house into a market house.”

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that scripture said – ‘Passion for your house will consume me.’

¹⁸ Then some of the religious authorities asked Jesus, “What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?”

¹⁹ “Destroy this temple,” was his answer, “and I will raise it in three days.”

²⁰ “This Temple,” the authorities replied, “has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to ‘raise it in three days’?”

²¹ But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

²² Afterward, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.

²³ While Jesus was in Jerusalem, during the Passover Festival, many came to trust in him, when they saw the signs of his mission that he was giving.

²⁴ But Jesus did not put himself in their power because he knew what was in their hearts.

²⁵ He did not need anyone to tell him about people because he could read what was in them.