Thursday, October 6, 2016
John 2
- Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)
- Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)
Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
John 2 NLT
1 The next day
there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’
mother was there,
2 and Jesus and his disciples were also
invited to the celebration.
3 The wine supply ran out during the
festivities, so Jesus’ mother told him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Dear woman, that’s not our problem,”
Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.”
5 But his mother told the servants, “Do
whatever he tells you.”
6 Standing nearby were six stone water
jars, used for Jewish ceremonial washing. Each could hold twenty to thirty
gallons.
7 Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars
with water.” When the jars had been filled,
8 he said, “Now dip some out, and take it
to the master of ceremonies.” So the servants followed his instructions.
9 When the master of ceremonies tasted the
water that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from (though, of course,
the servants knew), he called the bridegroom over.
10 “A host always serves the best wine
first,” he said. “Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the
less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!”
11 This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee
was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
12 After the wedding he went to Capernaum
for a few days with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples.
13 It was nearly time for the Jewish
Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14 In the Temple area he saw merchants
selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables
exchanging foreign money.
15 Jesus made a whip from some ropes and
chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered
the money changers’ coins over the floor, and turned over their tables.
16 Then, going over to the people who sold
doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s
house into a marketplace!”
17 Then his disciples remembered this
prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.”
18 But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What
are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign
to prove it.”
19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy
this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken
forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three
days?”
21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he
meant his own body.
22After he was raised from the dead, his
disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures
and what Jesus had said.
23 Because of the miraculous signs Jesus
did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to trust in him.
24 But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he
knew all about people.
25 No one needed to tell
him about human nature, for he knew what was in each
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