The Gospel According to
John 2
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The Wedding at Cana
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Jesus’ mother
When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”
Jesus
“Woman, what is that to you and to Me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
Jesus’ mother
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
Do whatever He tells you.
John 2:5
Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim.
“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so,
and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.
He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
The master of the banquet
and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”
Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
John 2:11
Seven signs
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John calls Jesus’ miracles signs: each one points past itself to who He is. Cana is “the first of His signs.” Readers often count seven before the cross, and John says he wrote them down so that we would believe and have life (20:31).
Reflect
Whatever He tells you
Jesus’ mother brought the need straight to her Son, then turned to the servants: “Do whatever He tells you.” They filled heavy jars with plain water before they saw anything change. What need will you bring to Jesus today, and what simple step of obedience might He be asking of you while you wait?
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
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Where it happened
Down to the lake, up to Jerusalem
From Cana in the Galilean hills, Jesus goes down to Capernaum on the shore of the Sea of Galilee with His mother, His brothers and His disciples. Then, as Passover draws near, He makes the long climb up to Jerusalem.
Jesus
To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
John 2:17
Question
Quick question
In the noise of the temple market, Jesus spoke of the temple in a way no one else there could.
What did Jesus call the temple in John 2?
On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
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While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all. He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
Pray
Known all the way through
Jesus “knew what was in a man.” Nothing in your heart surprises Him. Thank Him that the One who knows you completely still came for you, and ask Him for faith that trusts Him for who He is, not only for what He can do.
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Do whatever He tells you.
John 2:5
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