John 2

The Wedding at Cana

2On ^hthe third day there was a wedding at ⁱCana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ²Jesus also was invited to the wedding with ^jhis disciples. ³When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” ⁴And Jesus said to her, ^k“Woman, ^lwhat does this have to do with me? ^mMy hour has not yet come.” ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

⁶Now there were six stone water jars there ⁿfor the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty ^ogallons.^{1 7}Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. ⁹When the master of the feast tasted ^pthe water now become wine, and 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 poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” ¹¹This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested ^qhis glory. And ^rhis disciples believed in him.

¹²After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and ^shis brothers² and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

^13tThe Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus ^uwent up to Jerusalem. ^14vIn the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ¹⁵And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make ^wmy Father’s house a house of trade.” ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, ^x“Zeal for your house will consume me.”

¹⁸So the Jews said to him, ^y“What sign do you show us for doing these things?” ¹⁹Jesus answered them, ^z“Destroy this temple, and in three days ^aI will raise it up.” ²⁰The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,³ and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about ^bthe temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, ^chis disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed ^dthe Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Jesus Knows What Is in Man

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name ^ewhen they saw the signs that he was doing. ²⁴But Jesus ^fon his part did not entrust himself to them, because ^ghe knew all people ²⁵and needed no one to bear witness about man, for ^ghe himself knew what was in man.