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Two days later, there was a wedding in Cana, which is a town in the region of Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was there. 2 And someone also invited Jesus and his disciples to the wedding. 3 {The hosts served wine to those attending the wedding and} they drank all the wine they had. {So} Jesus’ mother said to him, “They are out of wine. {Please do something about it.}” 4 Then Jesus said to her, “Madam, what does that have to do with me or you? {The chosen} time {for me to begin} my {work} has not arrived yet.” 5 Jesus’ mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you to do.” 6 (There were six {empty} stone jars placed there. They held water {so that the people could wash themselves according to} Jewish religious cleansing laws. Each jar could hold 80 to 120 liters {of water}.) 7 Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled the jars completely to the top. 8 Then he told them, “Now, take some water out of a jar and bring it to the director of the wedding feast.” So the servants did that. 9 Then the director of the feast tasted the water, which had now become wine. (He did not know where the wine had come from, although the servants who had taken out the water knew.) And he called the bridegroom {to himself}. 10 Then he told the bridegroom, “Everyone serves the best wine first and serves the cheap wine later, when the guests have drunk a lot {and can’t tell the difference}. However, you have saved the best wine until now.” 11 That was the first of the miraculous signs that Jesus did. He did it in the town of Cana, which is in the region of Galilee. There he showed how great he is. So his disciples trusted in him.12 Some time after doing this miracle, Jesus and his mother and brothers, along with his disciples, went down to the town of Capernaum. And they stayed there for a few days.
13 Now it was almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went up to the city of Jerusalem. 14 There in the temple {courtyard} he saw men selling cattle, sheep, and pigeons {for those making sacrifices there}. {He also saw} men sitting at tables, exchanging money {for temple money}. 15 So Jesus made a whip from some braided leather strips, and he used it to drive all those people out from the temple {along with} the sheep and the cattle. He also scattered the coins of the moneychangers on the ground and flipped their tables over. 16 He told those who were selling pigeons, “Take these pigeons out of here! Do not turn my Father’s house into a marketplace!” 17 {This event} reminded his disciples about what someone had written {in the scriptures long before}, “I love your temple so much, {O God,} that I would die for it.”
18 The Jewish leaders then responded by asking Jesus, “What miracle can you do for us {to prove that you have authority from God} to do these things that you are doing?” 19 Jesus replied to them, “If you destroy this temple, then in three days I will rebuild it.” 20 So the Jewish leaders said, “It took 46 years to build this temple. {Are you saying that} you are going to rebuild this entire temple in just three days?” 21 However, the temple Jesus was speaking about was his own body, {not the temple building}. 22 As a result {of this statement}, his disciples remembered these things that he had said after God had raised Jesus from the dead. Then they believed both what the scriptures said and what Jesus himself had said.
23 At a later time, when Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, during {the days of} the celebration, many people trusted in him because they saw the miracles he kept on doing. 24 Nevertheless, because Jesus knew what all people were like, he did not trust them. 25 Jesus {also did not trust them} because he did not need anyone to tell him about mankind. {This is} because he knew what people {think and want}.