Signs and discourses
1TWO DAYS later there was a wedding at Cana-in-Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there,
2and Jesus and his disciples were also among the guests.
3The wine gave out, so Jesus's mother said to him, “They have no wine left.”
4He answered, “That is no concern of mine. My hour has not yet come.”
5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6There were six stone water-jars standing near, of the kind used for Jewish rites of purification; each held from twenty to thirty gallons.
7Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water,” and they filled them to the brim.
8“Now draw some off,” he ordered, “and take it to the master of the feast”; and they did so.
9The master tasted the water now turned into wine, not knowing its source, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He hailed the bridegroom
10and said, “Everyone else serves the best wine first, and the poorer only when the guests have drunk freely; but you have kept the best wine till now.”
11So Jesus performed at Cana-in-Galilee the first of the signs which revealed his glory and led his disciples to believe in him.
12AFTER this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
13As it was near the time of the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14In the temple precincts he found the dealers in cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers seated at their tables.
15He made a whip of cords and drove them out of the temple, sheep, cattle, and all. He upset the tables of the money-changers, scattering their coins.
16Then he turned on the dealers in pigeons: “Take them out of here,” he said; “do not turn my Father's house into a market.”
17His disciples recalled the words of scripture: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18The Jews challenged Jesus: “What sign can you show to justify your action?”
19“Destroy this temple,” Jesus replied, “and in three days I will raise it up again.”
20The Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple. Are you going to raise it up again in three days?”
21But the temple he was speaking of was his body.
22After his resurrection his disciples recalled what he had said, and they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
23WHILE he was in Jerusalem for Passover many put their trust in him when they saw the signs that he performed.
24But Jesus for his part would not trust himself to them. He knew them all,
25and had no need of evidence from others about anyone, for he himself could tell what was in people.