John 2
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1And on the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2And Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3And when the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." 4And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does this have to do with me and you? My hour has not yet come." 5His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." 6Now there were six stone water jars set there for the Jewish rites of purification, holding two or three measures each. 7Jesus said to them, "Fill the water jars with water." And they filled them to the brim. 8And he said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the master of the feast." So they took it. 9When the master of the feast tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when they have drunk freely, then the inferior; but you have kept the good wine until now." 11Jesus did this, the beginning of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. 12After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples; and they remained there a few days. 13And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14And he found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. 15And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers, and overturned the tables. 16And to those selling the doves he said, "Take these things out of here; do not make the house of my Father a house of trade." 17His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me." 18The Jews therefore answered and said to him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?" 19Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?" 21But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken. 23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he was doing. 24But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people, 25and because he had no need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
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