John 2:9-21

⁹The master of ceremonies didn't know where it had come from, only the servants knew. But when he tasted the water that had been turned to wine, he called the bridegroom over.

¹⁰“Everyone serves out the best wine first,” he told him, “and once people have had plenty to drink, then they put out the cheaper wine. But you have kept the best wine till last!”

¹¹This was the very first of Jesus' miraculous signs, and was performed in Cana of Galilee. Here he revealed his glory, and his disciples put their trust in him.

¹²After this Jesus left for Capernaum with his mother, brothers, and disciples where they stayed for a few days.

¹³Since it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went on to Jerusalem.

¹⁴In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves; and money-changers sitting at their tables.

¹⁵He made a whip out of cords and drove everyone out of the Temple, along with the sheep and cattle, scattering coins of the money-changers and turning over their tables.

¹⁶He ordered the dove-sellers, “Take these things out of here! Don't turn my Father's house into a market!”

¹⁷His disciples remembered the Scripture that says, “My devotion for your house is like a fire burning inside me!”

¹⁸The Jewish leaders reacted, asking him, “What right do you have to do this? Show us some miraculous sign to prove it!”

¹⁹Jesus replied, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I'll raise it up!”

²⁰“It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and you're going to raise it up in three days?” the Jewish leaders replied.

²¹But the Temple Jesus was speaking of was his body.