Chapter 2

And on the third day a marriage took place at Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

Now Jesus too was invited to the marriage, and also his disciples.

And the wine having run short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

And Jesus said her, "What wouldst thou have me do, woman? My hour has not yet come."

His mother said to the attendants, "Do whatever he tells you."

Now six stone water-jars were placed there, after the Jewish manner of purification, each holding two or three measures.

Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them to the brim.

And Jesus said to them, "Draw out now, and take to the chief steward." And they took it to him.

Now when the chief steward had tasted the water after it had become wine, not knowing whence it was (though the attendants who had drawn the water knew), the chief steward called the bridegroom,

and said to him, "Every man at first sets forth the good wine, and when they have drunk freely, then that which is poorer. But thou hast kept the good wine until now."

This first of his signs Jesus worked at Cana of Galilee; and he manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples. And they stayed there but a few days. Cleansing of the Temple

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

And he found in the temple men selling oxen, sheep and doves, and money-changers at their tables.

And making a kind of whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and oxen, and he poured out the money of the changers and overturned the tables.

And to them who were selling the doves he said, "Take these things away, and do not make the house of my Father a house of business."

And his disciples remembered that it is written, "The zeal for thy house has eaten me up."

The Jews therefore answered and said to him, "What sign dost thou show us, seeing that thou dost these things? "

In answer Jesus said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years has this temple been in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? "

But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

When, accordingly, he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Now when he was at Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, seeing the signs that he was working.

But Jesus did not trust himself to them, in that he knew all men,

and because he had no need that anyone should bear witness concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.