Jesus
Changes the Water to Wine
On
the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.
Jesus’
mother was there,
2 And
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the
wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him,
They have
no more wine.
4 Dear
woman, why do you involve me? Jesus replied,
My time
has not yet come.
5 His
mother said to the servants,
Do
whatever he tells you.
6 Nearby
stood six stone water jars,
The kind
use by the Jews for ceremonial washing,
Each
holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
7 Jesus
said to the servants,
Fill the
jars with water;
So they
filled them to the brim
8 Then he
told them,
Now draw
some out and take it to the master of the banquet.
They did
so,
9 And the
master of the banquet tasted the water
That had
been turned into wine.
He did not
realize where it had come from,
Though the
servants who had drawn the water know.
Then he
called the bridegroom aside
10 And
said, everyone bring 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.
11 This,
the first of his miraculous signs,
Jesus
performed in Cana of Galilee.
He thus
revealed his glory,
And his
disciples put their faith in him.
Jesus
reveals His Glory
And His
Disciples put their Faith in Him.
What was
Jesus Glory?
It was doing
what no man could do, the miraculous.
And His
Disciples upon seeing the miraculous,
Understood
that only the Messiah could do such things,
And they put
their Faith in Jesus.
Jesus
Clears the Temple
12 After
this he went down to Capernaum
With his
mother and brothers and his disciples.
There they
stayed for a few days.
13 When it
was almost time for the Jewish Passover,
Jesus went
up to Jerusalem.
14 In the
temple courts
He found
men selling cattle, sheep and doves,
And other
sitting at tables exchanging money.
15 So He
made a whip out of cords,
And drove
all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle;
He
scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables
16 To
those who sold doves He said.,
Get these
out of here!
How dare
you turn My Father’s house into a market!
17 His
disciples remembered that it is written:
Zeal
for your house will consume Me.
18 Then
the Jews demanded of him,
What
miraculous sign can you show us
To prove
your authority to do all this?
19 Jesus
answered them,
Destroy
this Temple, and I will raise it again in three days.
20 The
Jews replied,
It has
taken forty-six years to build this Temple
And you
are going to raise it in three days?
21 But the
temple He had spoken of was His body.
22 After
He was raised from the dead,
His
disciples recalled what He had said.
Then
they believed the Scripture
And the
words that Jesus had spoken.
23 Now
while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast,
Many
people saw the miraculous signs He was doing
And
believe in His Name.
24 But
Jesus would not entrust Himself to them,
For he
knew all men.
25 He did
not need man’s testimony about man,
For He
knew what was in a man.
(John 2)
The Zeal
for His Father's House Consumed Jesus.
The only
thing that matters in this World is the House of God;
In this case
it was a Physical House,
But more
importantly, it is those in whom Christ lives—
They are the
Temple of God.
Everything
else is Temporary and Passing Away,
And one day
soon will cease to exist at all.
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