Twenty - John - 2

2:1  Two days after this there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.

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

2:3  And, when the wine ran short, his mother said to him. "They have no wine left."

2:4  "What do you want with me?" answered Jesus. "My time has not come yet."

2:5  His mother said to the servants. "Do whatever he tells you."

2:6  There were standing there six stone water-jars, in accordance with the Jewish rule of 'purification,' each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

2:7  Jesus said to the servants. "Fill the water-jars with water;"

2:8  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.

2:9  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--

2:10  He called the bridegroom and said to him. "Every one puts good wine on the table first, and inferior wine afterwards, when his guests have drunk freely; but you have kept back the good wine till now!"

2:11  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.

2:12  After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum--he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; but they stayed there only a few days.

2:13  Then, as the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2:14  In the Temple Courts he found people who were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers at their counters.

2:15  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,

2:16  And said to the pigeon-dealers. "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's House into a market-house."

2:17  His disciples remembered that Scripture said--'Zeal for thy House will consume me.'

2:18  Upon this the Jews asked Jesus. "What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?"

2:19  "Destroy this temple," was his answer, "and I will raise it in three days."

2:20  "This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

2:21  But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

2:22  Afterwards, 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.

2:23  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.

2:24  But Jesus did not trust himself to them, since he could read every heart,

2:25  And because he did not need that others should tell him what men were; for he could of himself read what was in men.