1 O n the third day there was a wedding at Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

2 J esus also was invited with His disciples to the wedding.

3 A nd when the wine was all gone, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no more wine!

4 J esus said to her, '> Dear] woman, what is that to you and to Me? My time (hour to act) has not yet come.

5 H is mother said to the servants, Whatever He says to you, do it.

6 N ow there were six waterpots of stone standing there, as the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing) demanded, holding twenty to thirty gallons apiece.

7 J esus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water. So they filled them up to the brim.

8 T hen He said to them, Draw some out now and take it to the manager of the feast. So they took him some.

9 A nd when the manager tasted the water just now turned into wine, not knowing where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—he called the bridegroom

10 A nd said to him, Everyone else serves his best wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then he serves that which is not so good; but you have kept back the good wine until now!

11 T his, the first of His signs (miracles, wonderworks), Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

12 A fter that He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

13 N ow the Passover of the Jews was approaching, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 T here He found in the temple '> enclosure] those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there.

15 A nd having made a lash (a whip) of cords, He drove them all out of the temple '> enclosure]—both the sheep and the oxen—spilling and scattering the brokers’ money and upsetting and tossing around their trays (their stands).

16 T hen to those who sold the doves He said, Take these things away (out of here)! Make not My Father’s house a house of merchandise (a marketplace, a sales shop)!

17 A nd His disciples remembered that it is written, Zeal (the fervor of love) for Your house will eat Me up.

18 T hen the Jews retorted, What sign can You show us, seeing You do these things?

19 J esus answered them, Destroy (undo) this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.

20 T hen the Jews replied, It took forty-six years to build this temple (sanctuary), and will You raise it up in three days?

21 B ut He had spoken of the temple which was His body.

22 W hen therefore He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this. And so they believed and trusted and relied on the Scripture and the word (message) Jesus had spoken.

23 B ut when He was in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast, many believed in His name after seeing His signs (wonders, miracles) which He was doing.

24 B ut Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all;

25 A nd He did not need anyone to bear witness concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in human nature.