John 2Book 43 of 66 · 25 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. On the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
  2. Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
  3. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."
  4. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why does that involve Me? My hour has not yet come."
  5. His mother told the servants, "Whatever He tells you to do, do it."
  6. Now six stone water jars were standing there, used for the Jewish purification rites, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
  7. Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them to the brim.
  8. Then He said, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward." So they took it.
  9. When the head steward tasted the water — now become wine — and he did not know where it came from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew, he called the bridegroom
  10. and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then, after the guests have had plenty to drink, the lesser wine. But you have saved the best wine until now!"
  11. This — the first of His signs — Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
  12. After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples — and they stayed there a few days.
  13. The Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  14. In the temple He found those selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting at their tables.
  15. So He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple — the sheep and the oxen too. He scattered the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
  16. To those selling doves He said, "Get these things out of here! Do not turn My Father's house into a marketplace!"
  17. His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for Your house will consume Me."
  18. The Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can You show us to prove You have the authority to do this?"
  19. Jesus answered them, "Tear down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
  20. The Jewish leaders said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and You will raise it up in three days?"
  21. But He was speaking about the temple of His body.
  22. So 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.
  23. While He was in Jerusalem during the Passover feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.
  24. But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew them all,
  25. and because He did not need anyone to testify about what was in a person — He Himself knew what was in every person.