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 <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1">The First Sign: Turning Water into Wine</div><div class="m"> 1On the third day a wedding took place in Cana&#160; # 2:1 Jn 2:11; 4:46; 21:2 of Galilee.&#160; # 2:1 Mt 17:22 Jesus&#8217;s mother&#160; # 2:1 Mt 1:16 was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3When the wine ran out, Jesus&#8217;s mother told him, &#8220;They don&#8217;t have any wine.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 4 &#8220;What has this concern of yours to do with me, &#160; # 2:4 Or &#8220;What does that have to do with you and me; lit &#8220;What to me and to you; Mt 8:29; Mk 1:24; 5:7; Lk 8:28,# 2:4 2Sm 16:10; 19:22 woman?&#160;&#8221; &#160; # 2:4 Jn 19:26 Jesus asked. &#8220;My hour has not yet come.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 5&#8220;Do whatever he tells you,&#8221; his mother told the servants.</div><div class="p"> 6Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification.&#160; # 2:6 Lv 13&#8211;14; Heb 1:3 Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.&#160; # 2:6 Lit two or three measures</div><div class="p"> 7 &#8220;Fill the jars with water,&#8221; Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. 8Then he said to them, &#8220;Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter.&#8221; &#160; # 2:8 Lit ruler of the table And they did.</div><div class="p"> 9When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from&#160;#&#8212;&#160;#though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom 10and told him, &#8220;Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 11Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana&#160; # 2:11 Jn 2:1; 21:2 of Galilee.&#160; # 2:11 Mt 17:22 He revealed&#160; # 2:11 2Co 4:11; 1Jn 1:2 his glory,&#160; # 2:11 Mk 10:37; Jn 17:24 and his disciples believed in him.</div><div class="p"> 12After this, he went down to Capernaum,&#160; # 2:12 Lk 10:15 together with his mother, his brothers,&#160; # 2:12 Mt 12:46&#8211;50; Mk 3:31&#8211;35; 6:3; Lk 8:19&#8211;21; Ac 1:14 and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.</div><div class="s1">Cleansing the Temple</div><div class="m"> 13The Jewish Passover&#160; # 2:13 Ex 12:11 was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.&#160; # 2:13 Mt 23:37 14In the temple&#160; # 2:14&#8211;17 Mt 21:12&#8211;13; Mk 11:15&#8211;17; Lk 19:45&#8211;46 he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there. 15After making a whip out of cords,&#160; # 2:15 Ac 27:32 he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep&#160; # 2:15 Mt 7:15 and oxen. He also poured out the money changers&#8217; coins and overturned the tables. 16He told those who were selling doves, &#8220;Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father&#8217;s &#160; # 2:16 Mt 5:16; 11:27; Jn 8:42 house &#160; # 2:16 Lk 11:51; Jn 2:17 into a marketplace!&#160;&#8221; &#160; # 2:16 Lit a house of business,# 2:16 Jr 7:11; Zch 14:21; Mal 3:1&#8211;3</div><div class="p"> 17And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal &#160; # 2:17 Nm 25:13 for your house will consume &#160; # 2:17 Gl 5:15 me. &#160; # 2:17 Ps 69:9,# 2:17 Ps 69:9</div><div class="p"> 18So the Jews replied to him, &#8220;What sign will you show us for doing these things?&#160;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 19Jesus answered, &#8220;Destroy this temple, &#160; # 2:19 Or sanctuary, also in vv.&#160;20,21,# 2:19 Lk 1:21 and I will raise it up in three days.&#8221; &#160; # 2:19 Lk 9:22</div><div class="p"> 20Therefore the Jews said, &#8220;This temple took forty-six years to build,&#160; # 2:20 Or was built forty-six years ago and will you raise it up in three days?&#160;&#8221;&#160; # 2:20 Mk 15:29</div><div class="p"> 21But he was speaking about the temple of his body.&#160; # 2:21 Mt 26:26; 27:52,58; Mk 14:22; 15:43; Lk 12:4; 22:19; 23:52,55; Jn 19:31,38,40; 20:12; 1Co 10:16; 11:23&#8211;26; Heb 10:5,10; 1Pt 2:24 22So when he was raised from the dead,&#160; # 2:22 Mt 17:9; Rv 20:12 his disciples remembered that he had said this,&#160; # 2:22 Jn 14:26 and they believed the Scripture&#160; # 2:22 Mt 26:54; 2Pt 1:20 and the statement Jesus had made.</div><div class="p"> 23While he was in Jerusalem&#160; # 2:23 Mt 23:37 during the Passover Festival,&#160; # 2:23 Jn 5:1 many believed in his name&#160; # 2:23 Jn 10:25; 1Jn 3:23 when they saw the signs he was doing. 24Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all 25and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.&#160; # 2:25 Jr 17:10</div>
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On the third day a wedding took place in Cana  of Galilee.  Jesus’s mother  was there, and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother told him, “They don’t have any wine.”
“What has this concern of yours to do with me,   , woman? ”   Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”
“Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants.
Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification.  Each contained twenty or thirty gallons. 
“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim. Then he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter.”   And they did.
When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from #— #though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”
Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana  of Galilee.  He revealed  his glory,  and his disciples believed in him.
After this, he went down to Capernaum,  together with his mother, his brothers,  and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

The Jewish Passover  was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  In the temple  he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there. After making a whip out of cords,  he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep  and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables. He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s   house   into a marketplace! ”   ,
And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal   for your house will consume   me.   ,
So the Jews replied to him, “What sign will you show us for doing these things? ”
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,   , and I will raise it up in three days.”  
Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build,  and will you raise it up in three days? ” 
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.  So when he was raised from the dead,  his disciples remembered that he had said this,  and they believed the Scripture  and the statement Jesus had made.
While he was in Jerusalem  during the Passover Festival,  many believed in his name  when they saw the signs he was doing. Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.

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