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“This Jesus Did, in Cana of Galilee, as the First of His Miraculous Signs”
1 On the third day there took place in Cana of Galilee a wedding. Jesus’ mother was there,
2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They’re out of wine.”
4 “What does this concern of yours have to do with me, dear woman?” Jesus asked her. “My time hasn’t come yet.”
5 His mother told the servants, “Do whatever it is he tells ᵖyou.”
6 Now, located nearby were six stone water jars that the Jews used for their ceremonial washings, each one large enough to hold twenty to thirty gallons.
7 “Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told the servants. So they filled them up to the top.
8 Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet.” And they did so.
9 Well, when the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (the servants, of course, themselves knew—those who had drawn the water), he called the bridegroom over
10 and said to him, “In the case of most people, the fine wine is what they serve first; then, when the guests have had too much to drink, the cheaper. ˢYou, though, have held back the fine wine until now!”
11 This Jesus did, in Cana of Galilee, as the first of his miraculous signs; he displayed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples. And in that town they stayed for a few days.
“Stop Turning My Father’s House into a House of Business and Trade!”
13 The time for the Jewish Passover Festival was very near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 He went into the temple courts and saw those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves for sacrifices, as well as the moneychangers sitting at their tables.
15 Making a whip out of cords, he drove out of the temple courts both the sheep and the oxen, all of them, and scattered the moneychangers’ coins, and overturned their tables.
16 He told those who were selling the doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a house of business and trade!”
17 His disciples remembered that it was written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”+
18 So the Jewish authorities asked him, “What sign can ˢyou show us to justify these actions of yours?”
19 “Tear down this sanctuary,” replied Jesus, “and in three days I will raise it up again.”
20 “This sanctuary has been under construction for a good forty-six years!” said the Jewish authorities. “ˢYou, however, are going to raise it up in only three days?”
21 (Jesus, though, was speaking about a different temple, namely, his own body.
22 After he was raised from the dead, therefore, his disciples remembered that this he had said on a number of occasions. And so they believed the Scripture and what Jesus had said.)
23 Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many, many people put their faith in his name when they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.
24 Jesus, however, on his part, refused to entrust himself to them, because he knew what kind of person each of them was,
25 and didn’t need anyone to tell him about a person’s heart. Indeed, he himself knew each person’s thoughts and motives.