{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/john/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:29:52.353Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And on the third day a marriage took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And Jesus also, and his disciples, were invited to the marriage."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And wine being deficient, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Jesus says to her, What have I to do with thee, woman? mine hour has not yet come."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"His mother says to the servants, Whatever he may say to you, do."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Jesus says to them, Fill the water-vessels with water. And they filled them up to the brim."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry it to the feast-master. And they carried it."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But when the feast-master had tasted the water which had been made wine (and knew not whence it was, but the servants knew who drew the water), the feast-master calls the bridegroom,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and says to him, Every man sets on first the good wine, and when men have well drunk, then the inferior; thou hast kept the good wine till now."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many days."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And he found in the temple the sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"and, having made a scourge of cords, he cast them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the change of the money-changers, and overturned the tables,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house devours me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But he spoke of the temple of his body."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"When therefore he was raised from among the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men,"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"and that he had not need that any should testify of man, for himself knew what was in man."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 2 (DBT)","markdown":"[John 2](https://primebible.com/dbt/john/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/john/2 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}