John

¹On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

²Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

³When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

⁴Jesus said to her, "Dear woman, why do you involve me? My time has not yet come."

⁵His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

⁶Now standing there were six stone water jars used for Jewish purification rites, each holding twenty to thirty gallons.

⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim.

⁸Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." And they did.

⁹When the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine—he did not know where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew—he called the groom aside

¹⁰and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine after people have had plenty to drink. But you have saved the best wine until now."

¹¹Jesus performed this first sign at Cana in Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

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

¹³The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers sitting at their tables.

¹⁵He made a whip out of cords and drove everyone out of the temple courts, along with the sheep and cattle. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

¹⁶To those selling doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."

¹⁸The Jewish leaders demanded of him, "What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?"

¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."

²⁰They said to him, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?"

²¹But the temple he had spoken about was his body.

²²After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

²³While Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.

²⁴But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all people.

²⁵He did not need anyone to tell him about people, because he himself knew what was in every person.