John 2

¹On the third day, a wedding feast took place in Cana of Galilee, and Jesus’s mother was there. ²Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding feast. ³When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother said to him, "They have no wine."

⁴Jesus said to her, "Dear woman, what does this have to do with us? My hour has not yet arrived." ⁵His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."

⁶Now six stone water-jars were standing there for the purification rituals of the Judeans, each holding two or three liquid measures. ⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them to the brim. ⁸Then he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the toastmaster." So they took it.

⁹When the toastmaster tasted the water that had become wine—not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn the water knew—the toastmaster called the bridegroom over ¹⁰and said to him, "Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the inferior wine when the guests have become intoxicated. But you have kept the fine wine until now!" ¹¹Jesus performed this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee; he revealed his glory, and his disciples put their trust in him.

¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

¹³The Passover of the Judeans was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴In the Temple precincts, he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting at their tables. ¹⁵Making a whip out of cords, he drove them all out of the Temple precincts, including the sheep and the cattle. He poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶To those selling the doves he said, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!" ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."

¹⁸The Judeans responded by saying to him, "What sign can you show us to justify your doing these things?" ¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up." ²⁰The Judeans then said, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you will raise it up in three days?" ²¹But he was speaking about the sanctuary of his body. ²²Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they trusted the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

²³While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many people put their trust in his name because they saw the signs he was performing. ²⁴But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone. ²⁵He had no need for anyone to testify about mankind, for he himself knew what was inside a person.