John 2:1–11

THE FIRST SIGN: TURNING WATER INTO WINE

2On the third day a wedding took place in Cana^u of Galilee.^v Jesus’s mother^w was there, ²and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. ³When 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.

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

⁷“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. ⁸Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter.”^C And they did.

⁹When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom ¹⁰and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

¹¹Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana^aa of Galilee.^ab He revealed^ac his glory,^ad and his disciples believed in him.