Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The Wedding in Cana
1 Two days later there was a wedding
in the town of Cana in Galilee.
Jesus' mother was there,
2 and
Jesus and his disciples had also been
-- --
invited to the wedding.
3 When the
wine had given out, Jesus' mother
said to him, “They are out of wine.”
4 “You must not tell me what to
do,” Jesus replied. “My time has not
yet come.”
5 Jesus' mother then told the servants,
“Do whatever he tells you.”
6 The Jews have rules about ritual
washing, and for this purpose six
stone water jars were there, each
one large enough to hold between
twenty and thirty gallons.
7 Jesus
said to the servants, “Fill these jars
with water.” They filled them to the
brim,
8 and then he told them, “Now
draw some water out and take it to
the man in charge of the feast.”
They took him the water,
9 which
now had turned into wine, and he
tasted it. He did not know where this
wine had come from (but, of course,
the servants who had drawn out the
water knew); so he called the bridegroom
10 and said to him, “Everyone
else serves the best wine first, and
after the guests have drunk a lot, he
serves the ordinary wine. But you
have kept the best wine until now!”
11 Jesus performed this first miracle
in Cana in Galilee; there he revealed
his glory, and his disciples
believed in him.
12 After this, Jesus and his mother,
brothers, and disciples went to Capernaum
and stayed there a few
days. note
Jesus Goes to the Temple
(Matthew 21.12–13; Mark 11.15–17; Luke 19.45–46)
13 It was almost time for the Passover
Festival, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. note
14 There in the Temple he
found men selling cattle, sheep, and
pigeons, and also the moneychangers
sitting at their tables.
15 So he
made a whip from cords and drove
all the animals out of the Temple,
both the sheep and the cattle; he
overturned the tables of the moneychangers
and scattered their coins;
16 and he ordered the men who sold
the pigeons, “Take them out of here!
Stop making my Father's house a
marketplace!”
17 His disciples remembered
that the scripture says,
“My devotion to your house, O God,
burns in me like a fire.” note
18 The Jewish authorities came
back at him with a question, “What
miracle can you perform to show us
that you have the right to do this?”
19 Jesus answered, “Tear down
this Temple, and in three days I will
build it again.” note
20 “Are you going to build it again
in three days?” they asked him. “It
has taken forty-six years to build
this Temple!”
21 But the temple Jesus was speaking
about was his body.
22 So when
he was raised from death, his disciples
remembered that he had said
this, and they believed the scripture
and what Jesus had said.
Jesus' Knowledge of Human Nature
23 While Jesus was in Jerusalem
during the Passover Festival, many
believed in him as they saw the miracles
he performed.
24 But Jesus did
not trust himself to them, because
he knew them all.
25 There was no
need for anyone to tell him about
them, because he himself knew what
was in their hearts.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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