Sign #1: Jesus Turns Water Into Wine
John 2On the third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’s mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine ran out, Jesus’s mother said to him, “They don’t have any more wine.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
His mother said to the deacons, “Whatever he tells y’all—y’all do it.”
Now there were six water pots of stone set there for the Jewish custom of purification, each containing twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, “Y’all fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now y’all draw some out and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it. When the ruler of the feast tasted the water that had become wine, he didn’t know where it came from (though the deacons who had drawn the water knew). Then he called the bridegroom and said to him, “All humans serve the excellent wine first and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. But you have kept the excellent wine until now!” This was the first the of signs Jesus did. In Cana of Galilee he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
After this, he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple Courts
When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple, he found those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. So he made a whip out of cords and drove everyone out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen. Then he poured out the changers’ coins and overthrew their tables. He said to the dove sellers, “Y’all get these things out of here! Y’all must not make my Father’s house into a marketplace!” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”+Psa 69:9
The Jews then said to him, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”
Jesus answered them, “Y’all must destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
The Jews then replied, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! And you are going to raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking of the temple of his body. So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing. But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew all people, and he didn’t need anyone to testify about humanity; for he himself knew what was in each human.