Thematic Bible




John 2:1 (show verse)

On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

John 2:2 (show verse)

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

John 2:3 (show verse)

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

John 2:4 (show verse)

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

John 2:5 (show verse)

His mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

John 2:6 (show verse)

Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.

John 2:7 (show verse)

Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

John 2:8 (show verse)

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

John 2:9 (show verse)

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

John 2:10 (show verse)

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

John 2:11 (show verse)

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

John 2:12 (show verse)

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples and they remained there for a few days.

John 2:13 (show verse)

The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 2:14 (show verse)

In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

John 2:15 (show verse)

After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

John 2:16 (show verse)

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

John 2:17 (show verse)

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

John 2:18 (show verse)

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"

John 2:19 (show verse)

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

John 2:20 (show verse)

The Jewish leaders said, "This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"

John 2:21 (show verse)

But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

John 2:22 (show verse)

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

John 2:23 (show verse)

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

John 2:24 (show verse)

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

John 2:25 (show verse)

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.