John 2

¹On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ²Jesus too was invited, along with his disciples, to the wedding. ³When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

⁴Jesus said to her, "What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet come."

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

⁶Now standing there were six stone water jars, set out for the purification practices of the Judeans, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. ⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim. ⁸Then he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast." And they took it.

⁹When the master of the feast tasted the water that had become wine—he did not know where it came from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew—the master of the feast called the bridegroom ¹⁰and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the inferior wine. But you have kept the good wine until now."

¹¹This, in Cana of Galilee, Jesus did as the beginning of the signs, and he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

¹²After this he went down to Capernaum—he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples—and they remained there not many days.

¹³The Passover of the Judeans was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴In the temple he found those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. ¹⁵Making a whip out of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶To those selling doves he said, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a house of trade!"

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."

¹⁸So the Judeans responded and said to him, "What sign do you show us, since you are doing these things?"

¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

²⁰The Judeans then said, "This temple was built over forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?" ²¹But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

²²Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

²³Now while he was in Jerusalem during the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing. ²⁴But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people ²⁵and because he had no need for anyone to testify about humanity, for he himself knew what was in a human being.