Gospel according to John 2

¹ Three days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there,

² and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited.

³ 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’.

⁴ Jesus said ‘Woman, why turn to me? My hour has not come yet.’

⁵ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you'[*a].

⁶ 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.

⁷ Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water’, and they filled them to the brim.

⁸ ‘Draw some out now’ he told them ‘and take it to the steward.’

⁹ 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

¹⁰ 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’.

¹¹ 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.

¹² After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and the brothers, but they stayed there only a few days.

¹³ Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

¹⁴ and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there.

¹⁵ 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

¹⁶ and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market’.

¹⁷ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me.[*b]

¹⁸ The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’

¹⁹ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up’.

²⁰ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary[*c]: are you going to raise it up in three days?’

²¹ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body,

²² 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.

²³ During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave,

²⁴ but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them;

²⁵ he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him.