Chapter 2

¹Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was present. ²Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. ³The wine gave out, and Jesus’ mother said to him,

“They have no more wine!”

⁴Jesus said to her,

“Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act.”

⁵His mother said to the servants,

“Do whatever he tells you.”

⁶Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons. ⁷Jesus said to them,

“Fill these jars with water.”

⁸So they filled them full. And he said to them,

“Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.”

⁹And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew— ¹⁰he called the bridegroom and said to him,

“Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!”

¹¹This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

¹²After this Jesus went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

¹³Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴In the Temple he found the dealers in cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their tables. ¹⁵And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers’ coins on the ground, and overturned their tables. ¹⁶And he said to the pigeon-dealers,

“Take these things away! Do not turn my Father’s house into a market!”

¹⁷His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, “My zeal for your house will consume me!”

¹⁸Then the Jews addressed him and said,

“What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?”

¹⁹Jesus answered,

“Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!”

²⁰The Jews said,

“It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?”

²¹But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary. ²²So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

²³Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him. ²⁴But Jesus on his part would not trust himself to them, for he knew them all, ²⁵and had no need of anybody’s evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.