THE FIRST SIGN: TURNING WATER INTO WINE

2 On the third day a wedding took place in Canau of Galilee.v Jesus’s motherw was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother told him, “They don’t have any wine.”

4 “What has this concern of yours to do with me,* x woman?”y Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”

5 “Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants.

6 Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification.z Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.H