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You have kept the good wine until now!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.</span></p> <h3> Jesus Cleanses the Temple</span></h3><p><span class="text John-2-13"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>doing business. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And He said to those who sold doves, <span class="woj">“Take these things away! Do not make</span> <span class="woj">My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then His disciples remembered that it was written, <span class="oblique">“Zeal for Your house</span> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span><span class="oblique">has eaten Me up.”</span></span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus answered and said to them, <span class="woj">“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”</span></span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But He was speaking of the temple of His body. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.</span></p> <h3> The Discerner of Hearts</span></h3><p><span class="text John-2-23"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all <i>men,</i> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-26107a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 2:11">John 2:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>revealed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26110b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 2:14">John 2:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>sitting</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26113c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 2:17">John 2:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU, M <i>will eat</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-26118d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to John 2:22">John 2:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU, M omit <i>to them</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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