John
Now on the third day
there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the
mother of Jesus was there.
Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his
disciples.
When they ran out of wine, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have
no more wine.”
Jesus said to her, “Lady, of what concern is this to you and
me? My hour
has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants,
“Whatever he tells you to do, do.”
There were six water jars standing there
for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about 20 or 30 gallons.
Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” And they filled them to
the brim,
and he said to them, “Now pour some out and bring it to the
head steward of the wedding,” and they did this.
When the head steward tasted the water which had become wine,
and he did not know how this
had happened (but the servants who had poured out the water knew), the
steward called the bridegroom and said,
“Everybody serves the good wine
at the beginning, and when everyone has drunk sufficiently, poorer wine. But
you have kept the best wine until now.”
Jesus performed this, the first of his symbolic miracles, at Cana in
Galilee, and he displayed his glory
and his disciples believed in him.
After this he, his mother, his brothers and his disciples went down to
Capernaum and they stayed there for a few days.
And the Jewish Festival of Passover
was approaching, and Jesus went
up to Jerusalem
and he found in the temple those selling cattle, sheep and
doves.
He made a little whip and drove them, both the sheep and the cattle,
out of the temple and overturned the tables,
and said to those selling the
doves, “Take these things out of here. Do not make my Father’s house into a market place.”
And the disciples remembered what Scripture had said: “A
passion for Your House consumes me.”
So the Jews answered Jesus with
these words: “What sign are you going to show us, to prove your authority
for doing these things?”
Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three
days I will raise it up.”
The Jews answered, “This temple has been under
construction for 46 years, and you say that you are going to raise it up in
three days?”
But he was speaking of the temple of his body.
When Jesus
was later raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said
these words, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had
spoken.
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover festival many believed
in his name
when they saw the signs which he was doing.
But Jesus did
not commit himself to them because he understood the nature of all people.
And he did not need anyone to testify about mankind, because he knew what
was in mankind.
John