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    John · 25 verses

    John 2

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    At Cana, the banquet master praises the bridegroom for a splendid last-minute wine decision, while the servants alone know that the wine began life in water jars.

    The wine that arrived from nowherevv. 1–12

    A wedding at Cana in Galilee runs out of wine, which is the sort of small disaster capable of becoming the whole evening. Jesus’ mother mentions it; Jesus gives the servants an instruction; and six purification jars, filled to the brim with water, become the source of the finest wine. The master of the banquet, who has not seen the trick, summons the bridegroom and congratulates him on an unusually daring order of service. The servants know better, and Jesus’ disciples see in the sign something that makes them believe in Him. Afterward Jesus goes down to Capernaum with His mother, brothers, and disciples, where they stay a few days.

    Forty-six years and three daysvv. 13–22

    At Passover in Jerusalem, Jesus finds the temple courts occupied by livestock sellers and money changers. He makes a whip of cords, drives out the animals and their dealers, scatters the coins, overturns tables, and tells the dove sellers to clear out. When the Jews demand a sign for such authority, Jesus answers with a sentence about destroying the temple and raising it in three days. They answer with the building schedule: forty-six years. The narrator supplies the missing turn—Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body—and the disciples only understand the saying after He was raised from the dead.

    Belief without an introductionvv. 23–25

    During the feast, many people see the signs Jesus is doing and believe in His name. Jesus, however, does not entrust Himself to them. The chapter leaves those two movements side by side: their belief comes from what they see, while His knowledge reaches what is in a man. No testimony is required, because Jesus already knows them all.

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    1. John 2:1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

    2. John 2:2and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

    3. John 2:3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”

    4. John 2:4“Woman, what is that to you and to Me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

    5. John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

    6. John 2:6Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.

    7. John 2:7Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim.

    8. John 2:8“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so,

    9. John 2:9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside

    10. John 2:10and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”

    11. John 2:11Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

    12. John 2:12After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

    13. John 2:13When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

    14. John 2:14In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

    15. John 2:15So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

    16. John 2:16To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

    17. John 2:17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

    18. John 2:18On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”

    19. John 2:19Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

    20. John 2:20“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

    21. John 2:21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

    22. John 2:22After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

    23. John 2:23While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.

    24. John 2:24But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.

    25. John 2:25He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 17Psalms 69:9because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
    • 17Psalms 119:139My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
    • 16Matthew 21:13And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
    • 4John 7:6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
    • 16Jeremiah 7:11Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
    • 5Genesis 6:22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
    • 5John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
    • 4John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
    • 4John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
    • 4John 8:20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
    • 5Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
    • 19Mark 14:58“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
    • 4John 12:23But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
    • 5Luke 5:5–6“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
    • 11John 20:30–31Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.
    • 16Mark 11:17Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

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