On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.
Jesus' mother was there,
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the
wedding.
When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said
to him, "They have no more wine."
"Dear woman, why do you involve me?"
Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come."
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells
you."
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the
Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to
the brim.
Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the
master of the banquet." They did so,
and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into
wine. He did not realize where
it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the
bridegroom aside
and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper
wine after the guests have had
too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed in
Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith
in him.
After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples.
There they stayed for a few days.
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went
up to Jerusalem.
In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others
sitting at tables exchanging money.
So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the
temple area, both sheep and
cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their
tables.
To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here!
How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"
His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your
house will consume me."
Then the Jews demanded of him, "What miraculous sign can
you show us to prove your authority to do all this?"
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise
it again in three days."
The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build
this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?"