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2. THE PASSOVER
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Three days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there,
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and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited.
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When they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the wedding was all finished, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine’.
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Jesus said ‘Woman, why turn to me? My hour has not come yet.’
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His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you'[*a].
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There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons.
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Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water’, and they filled them to the brim.
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‘Draw some out now’ he told them ‘and take it to the steward.’
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They did this; the steward tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from – only the servants who had drawn the water knew – the steward called the bridegroom
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and said; ‘People generally serve the best wine first, and keep the cheaper sort till the guests have had plenty to drink; but you have kept the best wine till now’.
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This was the first of the signs given by Jesus: it was given at Cana in Galilee. He let his glory be seen, and his disciples believed in him.
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After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and the brothers, but they stayed there only a few days.
The cleansing of the Temple
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Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
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and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there.
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Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over
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and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market’.
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Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me.[*b]
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The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’
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Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up’.
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The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary[*c]: are you going to raise it up in three days?’
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But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body,
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and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.
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During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave,
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but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them;
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he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him.
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