Bible Gateway passage: John 2 - New International Version (2025)

Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

2On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.^(A) Jesus’ mother^(B) was there, ²and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. ³When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”

⁴“Woman,^[a](C) why do you involve me?”^(D) Jesus replied. “My hour^(E) has not yet come.”

⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”^(F)

⁶Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,^(G) each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.^[b]

⁷Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

⁸Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so, ⁹and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.^(H) He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside ¹⁰and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

¹¹What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs^(I) through which he revealed his glory;^(J) and his disciples believed in him.^(K)

¹²After this he went down to Capernaum^(L) with his mother^(M) and brothers^(N) and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

Jesus Clears the Temple Courts^(O)

¹³When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,^(P) Jesus went up to Jerusalem.^{(Q) 14}In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves,^(R) and others sitting at tables exchanging money.^{(S) 15}So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house^(T) into a market!” ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”^[c](U)

¹⁸The Jews^(V) then responded to him, “What sign^(W) can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”^(X)

¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”^(Y)

²⁰They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” ²¹But the temple he had spoken of was his body.^{(Z) 22}After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.^(AA) Then they believed the scripture^(AB) and the words that Jesus had spoken.

²³Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,^(AC) many people saw the signs^(AD) he was performing and believed^(AE) in his name.^{[d] 24}But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. ²⁵He did not need any testimony about mankind,^(AF) for he knew what was in each person.^(AG)

Footnotes

1. John 2:4 The Greek for Woman does not denote any disrespect.
2. John 2:6 Or from about 75 to about 115 liters
3. John 2:17 Psalm 69:9
4. John 2:23 Or in him

Cross references

1. John 2:1 : Jn 4:46; 21:2
2. John 2:1 : S Mt 12:46
3. John 2:4 : Jn 19:26
4. John 2:4 : S Mt 8:29
5. John 2:4 : S Mt 26:18
6. John 2:5 : Ge 41:55
7. John 2:6 : Mk 7:3, 4; Jn 3:25
8. John 2:9 : Jn 4:46
9. John 2:11 : ver 23; Mt 12:38; Jn 3:2; S 4:48; 6:2, 14, 26, 30; 12:37; 20:30
10. John 2:11 : Jn 1:14
11. John 2:11 : Ex 14:31
12. John 2:12 : S Mt 4:13
13. John 2:12 : S Mt 12:46
14. John 2:12 : S Mt 12:46
15. John 2:13 : 2:14-16pp — Mt 21:12, 13; Mk 11:15-17; Lk 19:45, 46
16. John 2:13 : S Jn 11:55
17. John 2:13 : Dt 16:1-6; Lk 2:41
18. John 2:14 : Lev 1:14; Dt 14:26
19. John 2:14 : Dt 14:25
20. John 2:16 : Lk 2:49
21. John 2:17 : Ps 69:9
22. John 2:18 : S Jn 1:19
23. John 2:18 : S ver 11
24. John 2:18 : S Mt 12:38
25. John 2:19 : S Mt 16:21; 26:61; 27:40; Mk 14:58; 15:29; Ac 6:14
26. John 2:21 : 1Co 6:19
27. John 2:22 : Lk 24:5-8; Jn 12:16; 14:26
28. John 2:22 : Ps 16:10; S Lk 24:27
29. John 2:23 : ver 13
30. John 2:23 : S ver 11
31. John 2:23 : S Jn 3:15
32. John 2:25 : Isa 11:3
33. John 2:25 : Dt 31:21; 1Ki 8:39; S Mt 9:4; Jn 6:61, 64; 13:11