John

Three days later, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was there.

Jesus was also invited to the wedding with his disciples.

When all the wine for the celebration was served, and they had run out, Jesus’ mother told him:

“They have no wine.”

Jesus answered:

“Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.”

His mother said to the servants:

“Do whatever he tells you.”

Nearby were six stone water jars set there for ritual washing as practiced by the Jews; each jar could hold twenty or thirty gallons.

Jesus said to the servants:

“Fill the jars with water.”

And they filled them to the brim.

Then Jesus said:

“Now draw some out and take it to the chief steward.”

So they did.

The steward tasted the water that had turned into wine without knowing where it came from; only the servants who had drawn the water knew. Immediately he called the bridegroom

and said,

“Everyone serves the best wine first, and once people have had enough, he serves the ordinary stuff. But you have kept the best wine for last.”

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.

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

As the Passover of the Jews was approaching, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In the temple courtyard, he saw merchants selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and moneychangers seated at their tables.

Making a whip out of cords, he drove them all out of the temple courtyard, along with the oxen and sheep. He knocked over the tables of the moneychangers, scattering the coins

and then ordered the people selling doves: “Take all this away and stop making a marketplace of my Father’s house!”

His disciples remembered the words of Scripture: Zeal for your house consumes me like fire.

The Jews then questioned Jesus:

“What sign can you show us for doing this?”

Jesus answered them:

“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”

The Jews then replied:

“The building of this temple has already taken forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?”

But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

It was only after he had risen from the dead that his disciples remembered these words; then they believed both the scripture and the words Jesus had spoken.

Jesus stayed in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, and many believed in his name when they saw the miraculous signs he performed.

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

and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what there was in each one.