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On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there,
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and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited.
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And they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus said to him, 'They have no wine.'
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Jesus said,
'Woman, what do you want from me? My hour has not come yet.'
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His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever he tells you.'
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There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons.
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Jesus said to the servants,
'Fill the jars with water,' and they filled them to the brim.
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Then he said to them,
'Draw some out now and take it to the president of the feast.'
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They did this; the president tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from -- though the servants who had drawn the water knew -- the president of the feast called the bridegroom
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and said, 'Everyone serves good wine first and the worse wine when the guests are well wined; but you have kept the best wine till now.'
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This was the first of Jesus' signs: it was at Cana in Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
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After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, but they stayed there only a few days.
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When the time of the Jewish Passover was near Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
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and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there.
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Making a whip out of cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, sheep and cattle as well, scattered the money changers' coins, knocked their tables over
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and said to the dove sellers,
'Take all this out of here and stop using my Father's house as a market.'
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Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: I am eaten up with zeal for your house.
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The Jews intervened and said, 'What sign can you show us that you should act like this?'
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Jesus answered,
'Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.'
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The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple: are you going to raise it up again in three days?'
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But he was speaking of the Temple that was his body,
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and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what he had said.
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During his stay in Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he did,
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but Jesus knew all people and did not trust himself to them;
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he never needed evidence about anyone; he could tell what someone had within.
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