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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>John 2 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > John 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/1.htm" title="John 1">◄</a> John 2 <a href="../john/3.htm" title="John 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Wedding at Cana<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And on the third day, a wedding was held in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now Jesus was also invited to the wedding, with his disciples. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Jesus said to her: “What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet arrived.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, “Fill the water jars with water.” And they filled them to the very top. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Jesus said to them, “Now draw from it, and carry it to the chief steward of the feast.” And they took it to him. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then, when the chief steward had tasted the water made into wine, since he did not know where it was from, for only the servants who had drawn the water knew, the chief steward called the groom, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and he said to him: “Every man offers the good wine first, and then, when they have become inebriated, he offers what is worse. But you have kept the good wine until now.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>This was the beginning of the signs that Jesus accomplished in Cana of Galilee, and it manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.<p> <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus Cleanses the Temple<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/21.htm#12">Matthew 21:12–17</a>; <a href ="../mark/11.htm#15">Mark 11:15–19</a>; <a href ="../luke/19.htm#45">Luke 19:45–48</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After this, he descended to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, but they did not remain there for many days.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the Passover of the Jews was near, and so Jesus ascended to Jerusalem. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he found, sitting in the temple, sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And when he had made something like a whip out of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the brass coins of the moneychangers, and he overturned their tables. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And to those who were selling doves, he said: “Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father’s house into a house of commerce.” <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And truly, his disciples were reminded that it is written: “Zeal for your house consumes me.” <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the Jews responded and said to him, “What sign can you show to us, that you may do these things?” <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus responded and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the Jews said, “This temple has been built up over forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?” <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Yet he was speaking about the Temple of his body. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore, when he had resurrected from the dead, his disciples were reminded that he had said this, and they believed in the Scriptures and in the word that Jesus had spoken.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now while he was at Jerusalem during the Passover, on the day of the feast, many trusted in his name, seeing his signs that he was accomplishing. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he himself had knowledge of all persons, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and because he had no need of anyone to offer testimony about a man. 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