The Concordant Literal New Testament

John’s Account

Chapter 2

¹ And on the third day a wedding occurred in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
² Now Jesus also was called to the wedding, and His disciples.
³ And, at their being in want of wine, the mother of Jesus is saying to Him, "They have no wine."
⁴ And Jesus is saying to her, "What is it to Me and to thee, woman! Not as yet is My hour arriving."
⁵ His mother is saying to the servants, "Anything which He should be saying to you, do."
⁶ Now there were six stone water pots lying there, in accord with the cleansing of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
⁷ And Jesus is saying to them, "Brim fill the water pots with water." And up to the brim they fill them.
⁸ And He is saying to them, "Draw now and bring to the chief of the dining room." Now they bring it.
⁹ Now as the chief of the dining room tastes the water become wine, and was not aware whence it is -- yet the servants who have drawn the water were aware -- the chief of the dining room is summoning the bridegroom
¹⁰ and is saying to him, "Every man is placing the ideal wine first, and whenever they should be made drunk, then the inferior. Yet you have kept the ideal wine hitherto."
¹¹ This beginning of the signs Jesus does in Cana of Galilee, and manifests His glory, and His disciples believe in Him.
¹² After this He descended into Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and disciples, and they remain not many days.
¹³ And near was the Passover of the Jews, and Jesus went up into Jerusalem.
¹⁴ And He found in the sanctuary those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting.
¹⁵ And, making a whip out of ropes, He casts all out of the sanctuary, both the sheep and the oxen, and He pours out the change of the brokers and overturns the tables.
¹⁶ And to those selling doves He said, "Take these away hence, and do not be making My Father's house a house for a merchant's store."
¹⁷ Now His disciples are reminded that it is written: "The zeal of Thy house will be devouring Me."
¹⁸ The Jews, then, answered and said to Him, "What sign are you showing us, seeing that you are doing these things?"
¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, "Raze this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
²⁰ The Jews, then, said, "In forty and six years was this temple built, and you will be raising it up in three days!"
²¹ Yet He said it concerning the temple of His body.
²² When, then, He was roused from among the dead, His disciples are reminded that He said this, and they believe the scripture and the word which Jesus said.
²³ Now as He was in Jerusalem at the Passover in the festival, many believe in His name, beholding His signs which He did.
²⁴ Yet Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, because of His knowing all men,
²⁵ for He had no need that anyone should be testifying concerning mankind, for He knew what was in mankind.

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