John 2:2

George Lamsa Translation

And Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the marriage feast.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus and his followers were also invited.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus was called also and his disciples vnto the mariage.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua also was invited, with his talmidim, to the marriage.

International Standard Version
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

New American Standard Bible
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

New Century Version
and Jesus and his followers were also invited to the wedding.

Update Bible Version
and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Webster's Bible Translation
And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

English Standard Version
Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

World English Bible
Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the marriage.

Weymouth's New Testament
and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus was clepid, and hise disciplis, to the weddyngis.

English Revised Version
and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Berean Standard Bible
and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited and were there.

Amplified Bible
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

American Standard Version
and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Bible in Basic English
And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua too was invited to the wedding, along with his talmidim.

Darby Translation
And Jesus also, and his disciples, were invited to the marriage.

Etheridge Translation
and Jeshu and his disciples were called to the feast.

Murdock Translation
And also Jesus and his disciples were invited to the feast.

King James Version (1611)
And both Iesus was called, and his disciples, to the mariage.

New Living Translation
and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration.

New Life Bible
Jesus and His followers were asked to come to the wedding.

New Revised Standard
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iesus was called also, and his disciples vnto the mariage.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, unto the marriage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iesus was called, and his disciples vnto the mariage.

Good News Translation
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

King James Version
And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Lexham English Bible
And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding.

Literal Translation
And Jesus and His disciples also were invited to the marriage.

Young's Literal Translation
and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus also and his disciples was called vnto ye mariage.

Mace New Testament (1729)
as likewise Jesus and his disciples, who were all invited to the feast.

New English Translation
and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

New King James Version
Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus's twelve cowboys were also invited to the party.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

Legacy Standard Bible
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

Contextual Overview

¹ ON the third day there was a marriage feast in Cana, a city of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. ² And Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the marriage feast. ³ And when the wine decreased, his mother said to Jesus, They have no wine. ⁴ Jesus said to her, What is it to me and to you, woman? my turn has not yet come. ⁵ His mother said to the helpers, Whatever he tells you, do it. ⁶ And there were six stone jars placed there for the purification of the Jews, which could hold several gallons each. ⁷ Jesus said to them, Fill the jars with water; and they filled them up to the brim. ⁸ Then he said to them, Draw out now, and bring it to the chief guest of the feast. And they brought it. ⁹ And when the chief guest tasted the water that had become wine, he did not know whence it had come; but the helpers knew, who had drawn the water. Then the chief guest called the bridegroom ¹⁰ And said to him, Every man at first brings the best wine; and when they have drunk, then that which is weak; but you have kept the best wine until now.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

both: Matthew 12:19, Luke 7:34-38, 1 Corinthians 7:39, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:17, Revelation 3:20, his: Matthew 10:40-42, Matthew 25:40, Matthew 25:45

the marriage: Hebrews 13:4

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:10 - General Psalms 116:4 - called Matthew 7:8 - General Matthew 11:19 - came Luke 8:24 - Master

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Exodus 23:12
Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your ass may rest and the son of your handmaid; and that the stranger in your towns may be refreshed.

Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth and the seas and all that are therein, and on the seventh day he ceased from work and rested.

Deuteronomy 5:14
But the seventh day is the sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor the sojourner that is in your towns; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.

Isaiah 58:13
If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasures on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor it, not doing on it your own ways, nor doing on it your own pleasure, nor speaking idle words;

John 5:17
But Jesus said to them, My Father works even until now, so I also work.

Hebrews 4:4
For he said concerning the sabbath, God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And both Jesus was called,.... Or invited, as being a relation, according to the flesh:

and his disciples, to the marriage; who were bidden, on his account; and they seem to be these, Andrew, and the other disciple, that followed Jesus, and Simon Peter, and Philip, and Nathanael, who was of this place; and accordingly they all went to it. Christ, and his five disciples, made six of the ten, which were always necessary to be present at, the benediction of bridegrooms: for so runs the canon m;

"they do not bless the blessing of bridegrooms, but with ten principal and free men; and the bridegroom may be one of the number.''

To attend a wedding, was reckoned, with the Jews, an act of beneficence and kindness n. Our Lord, being at this wedding, was acting like himself, and his general character, of being free, affable, and courteous; who accepted of every invitation, and refused not to be at any entertainment, made by who it would, or on whatever occasion: and particularly in this instance, it shows his humility in not disdaining his poor relations, but giving them his company at such a time; as also it was bearing a testimony to the institution of marriage, as honourable; and teaches us to rejoice with them that rejoice: and as this was, at the first of Christ's ministry and miracles, it is likely it might give the occasion of that calumny cast on him in Matthew 11:19. The disciples of Christ followed the example of their master. According to the Jewish cations o, a disciple of a wise man might not partake of any feast, but what was according to the commandment, as the feast of espousals, and of marriage; and such a feast was this, which Christ and his disciples were at; and so not to be condemned for it, according to their own maxims.

m Maimon. Hilch. Ishot, c. 10. sect. 5. Pirke Eliezer, c. 19. Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 9. 3. n Maimon in Misn. Peah, c. 1. sect. 1. o T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 49. 1. & Maimon. Hilchot Deyot, c. 5. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His disciples - Those that he had made when in Judea. These were Peter, Andrew, Philip, and Nathanael. They were not yet called to be apostles, but they believed that he was the Messiah. The miracle performed here was doubtless to convince them more fully that he was the Christ.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 2:2. And both Jesus was called, and his disciples — There are several remarkable circumstances here.

1. This was probably the first Christian wedding that was ever in the world.

2. The great Author of the Christian religion, with his disciples, (probably then only four or five in number, see John 1:37, c.,) were invited to it.

3. The first miracle Jesus Christ wrought was at it, and in honour of it.

4. The mother of Christ, the most pure of all virgins, the most holy of all wives, and the first Christian mother, was also at it.

5. The marriage was according to God, or these holy persons would not have attended it.

6. The bride and bridegroom must have been a holy pair, otherwise they would have had nothing to do with such holy company.

Marriage is ever honourable in itself but it is not at all times used honourably. Where Jesus is not invited to bless the union, no good can be expected; and where the disciples of sin and Satan are preferred to the disciples of Christ, on such occasions, it is a melancholy intimation that so bad a beginning will have a bad ending. I am afraid we may search long, before we find a marriage conducted on such principles as this appears to have been, even among those who make more than a common profession of the religion of Christ.