50 lines
2.7 KiB
Markdown
50 lines
2.7 KiB
Markdown
The First Sign: Turning Water into Wine
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# Chapter 2
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1. On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus's mother was there,
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2. and Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well.
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3. When the wine ran out, Jesus's mother told him, "They don't have any wine."
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4. *"What has this concern of yours to do with me, woman?" Jesus asked. "My hour has not yet come."*
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5. "Do whatever he tells you," his mother told the servants.
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6. Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.
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7. *"Fill the jars with water,"* Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.
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8. Then he said to them, *"Now draw some out and take it to the headwaiter."* And they did.
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9. When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from--though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom
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10. and told him, "Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now."
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11. Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
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12. After this, he went down to Capernaum, together with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.
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Cleansing the Temple
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13. The Jewish Passover was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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14. In the temple he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there.
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15. After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers' coins and overturned the tables.
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16. He told those who were selling doves, *"Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a marketplace!"*
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17. And his disciples remembered that it is written: <b class="quote">Zeal* <b class="quote">for your house will consume <b class="quote">me.*
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18. So the Jews replied to him, "What sign will you show us for doing these things?"
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19. Jesus answered, *"Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days."*
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20. Therefore the Jews said, "This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?"
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21. But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
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22. So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.
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23. While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.
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24. Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all
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25. and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.
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