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From Water to Wine

2Three days later there was a wedding in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.G2532G5154G2250G1096G1062G1722G2580G1056G2532G3384G2424G2258G1563 2Jesus and his disciples were guests also.G1161G2532G2424G2564G2532G846G3101G1519G1062 3When they started running low on wine at the wedding banquet, Jesus' mother told him, "They're just about out of wine."G2532G5302G3631G3384G2424G3004G4314G846G2192G3756G3631 4Jesus said, "Is that any of our business, Mother—yours or mine? This isn't my time. Don't push me."G2424G3004G846G1135G5101G1698G2532G4671G3450G5610G2240G3768G2240 5She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."G846G3384G3004G1249G3748G302G3004G5213G4160 6Six stoneware water pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held twenty to thirty gallons.G1161G2258G2749G1563G1803G5201G3035G2596G2512G2453G5562G1417G2228G5140G3355G303 7Jesus ordered the servants, "Fill the pots with water." And they filled them to the brim.G2424G3004G846G1072G5201G5204G2532G1072G846G1072G2193G507 8"Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host," Jesus said, and they did.G2532G3004G846G501G3568G2532G5342G755G2532G5342 9When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn't know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom,G1161G5613G755G1089G5204G1096G3631G2532G1492G3756G4159G2076G1161G1249G3588G501G5204G1492G755G5455G3566 10"Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings in the cheap stuff. But you've saved the best till now!"G2532G3004G846G3956G444G4412G5087G2570G3631G2532G3752G3184G5119G1640G4771G5083G2570G3631G2193G737 11This act in Cana of Galilee was the first sign Jesus gave, the first glimpse of his glory. And his disciples believed in him.G5026G746G4592G4160G2424G1722G2580G1056G2532G5319G846G1391G2532G846G3101G4100G1519G846 12After this he went down to Capernaum along with his mother, brothers, and disciples, and stayed several days.G3326G5124G2597G1519G2584G846G2532G846G3384G2532G846G80G2532G846G3101G2532G3306G1563G3756G4183G2250

Tear Down This Temple . . .

13When the Passover Feast, celebrated each spring by the Jews, was about to take place, Jesus traveled up to Jerusalem.G2532G2453G3957G2258G1451G2532G2424G305G1519G2414 14He found the Temple teeming with people selling cattle and sheep and doves. The loan sharks were also there in full strength.G2532G2147G1722G2411G4453G1016G2532G4263G2532G4058G2532G2773G2521 15Jesus put together a whip out of strips of leather and chased them out of the Temple, stampeding the sheep and cattle, upending the tables of the loan sharks, spilling coins left and right.G2532G4160G5416G1537G4979G1544G3956G1537G2411G5037G4263G2532G1016G2532G1632G2855G2772G2532G390G5132 16He told the dove merchants, "Get your things out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a shopping mall!"G2532G2036G4453G4058G142G5023G1782G4160G3361G3450G3962G3624G3624G1712 17That's when his disciples remembered the Scripture, "Zeal for your house consumes me."G1161G846G3101G3415G3754G2076G1125G2205G4675G3624G2719G3165G2719 18But the Jews were upset. They asked, "What credentials can you present to justify this?"G3767G611G2453G2532G2036G846G5101G4592G1166G2254G3754G4160G5023 19Jesus answered, "Tear down this Temple and in three days I'll put it back together."G2424G611G2532G2036G846G3089G5126G3485G2532G1722G5140G2250G1453G846G1453 20They were indignant: "It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"G3767G2036G2453G5062G2532G1803G2094G3618G3778G3485G3618G2532G1453G4771G1453G846G1453G1722G5140G2250 21But Jesus was talking about his body as the Temple.G1161G1565G3004G4012G3485G846G4983 22Later, after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this. They then put two and two together and believed both what was written in Scripture and what Jesus had said.G3753G3767G1453G1537G3498G846G3101G3415G3754G3004G5124G846G2532G4100G1124G2532G3056G3739G2424G2036 23During the time he was in Jerusalem, those days of the Passover Feast, many people noticed the signs he was displaying and, seeing they pointed straight to God, entrusted their lives to him.G1161G5613G2258G1722G2414G1722G3957G1722G1859G4183G4100G1519G846G3686G2334G846G4592G3739G4160 24But Jesus didn't entrust his life to them. He knew them inside and out, knew how untrustworthy they were.G1161G2424G846G4100G3756G4100G1438G846G1223G846G1097G3956 25He didn't need any help in seeing right through them.G2532G3754G5532G2192G3756G2443G5100G3140G4012G444G1063G846G1097G5101G2258G1722G444


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