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Miracle at Cana

¹ On ^(C1)the third day there was a wedding at ^(C2)Cana of Galilee, and the ^(C3)mother of Jesus was there;² and both Jesus and His ^(C1)disciples were invited to the wedding.³ When the wine was all gone, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "^(F1)They have no more wine."⁴ Jesus said to her, "Dear ^(C1)woman, ^(F1)(C2)what is that to you and to Me? ^(C3)My time to act and to be revealed has not yet come." ^(VR1)5 His ^(C1)mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."⁶ Now there were six stone waterpots set there ^(C1)for the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing), containing twenty or thirty gallons each.⁷ Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the waterpots with water." So they filled them up to the brim.⁸ Then He said to them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter of the banquet." So they took it to him.⁹ And when the headwaiter tasted the water which had ^(C1)turned into wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew) he called the bridegroom,¹⁰ and said to him, "Everyone else serves his best wine first, and when people ^(C1)have ^(F1)drunk freely, then he serves that which is not so good; but you have kept back the good wine until now."¹¹ This, the first of His ^(C1)signs (attesting miracles), Jesus did in Cana of ^(C2)Galilee, and revealed His ^(C3)glory displaying His deity and His great power openly, and His disciples believed confidently in Him as the Messiah—they adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Him. ^(VR1)

¹² After this He went down to ^(C1)Capernaum, He and His ^(C2)mother and ^(C2)brothers and His ^(C3)disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

First Passover—Cleansing the Temple

¹³ Now ^(C1)the Passover of the Jews was approaching, so Jesus ^(C2)went up to Jerusalem.^14 (C1)And in the temple enclosure He found the ^(F1)people who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at their tables. ^(VR1)15 He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;¹⁶ then to those who sold ^(C1)the doves He said, "Take these things away! Stop making ^(C2)My Father's house a place of commerce!" ^(VR1)17 His ^(C1)disciples remembered that it is written in the Scriptures, "^(C2)ZEAL (love, concern) FOR YOUR HOUSE and its honor WILL CONSUME ME." ^(VR1)18 Then ^(C1)the Jews retorted, "^(C2)What sign (attesting miracle) can You show us as proof of your authority for doing these things?"¹⁹ Jesus answered them, "^(C1)Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."²⁰ Then ^(C1)the Jews replied, "It took ^(C2)forty-six years to build this temple, and You will raise it up in three days?"²¹ But He was speaking of ^(C1)the temple which was His body.²² So when He had risen from the dead, His ^(C1)disciples ^(C2)remembered what He had said. And they believed and trusted in and relied on ^(C3)the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. ^(VR1)

²³ Now when He was in Jerusalem at ^(C1)the Passover feast, many believed in His name identifying themselves with Him after ^(C2)seeing His signs (attesting miracles) which He was doing.²⁴ But Jesus, for His part, did not entrust Himself to them, because ^(C1)He knew all people and understood the ^(F1)superficiality and fickleness of human nature,²⁵ and He did not need anyone to testify concerning man and human nature, ^(C1)for He Himself knew what was in man in their hearts—in the very core of their being. ^(VR1)