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John 1:37 | 982 982 | John 2:21
Jesus pass ing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb
of God!”
37 When the two dis ci ples heard him
say this, they fol lowed Jesus. 38 Turn ing
around, Jesus saw them fol low ing and
asked, “What do you want?”
They said, “Rab bi” (which means
“Teach er”), “where are you stay ing?”
39 “Come,” he re plied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw where he was
stay ing, and they spent that day with
him. It was about four in the af ter noon.
40 An drew, Si mon Pe ter’s broth er, was
one of the two who heard what John had
said and who had fol lowed Jesus. 41 The
first thing An drew did was to find his
broth er Si mon and tell him, “We have
found the Mes si ah” (that is, the Christ).
42 And he brought him to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said, “You are
Si mon son of John. You will be called Cephas”
(which, when trans lat ed, is Pe ter a ).
Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael
43 The next day Jesus de cid ed to leave
for Gal i lee. Find ing Phil ip, he said to him,
“Follow me.”
44 Phil ip, like An drew and Pe ter, was
from the town of Beth sa i da. 45 Philip found
Na than a el and told him, “We have found
the one Mo ses wrote about in the Law, and
about whom the proph ets also wrote —
Jesus of Naz a reth, the son of Jo seph.”
46 “Naz a reth! Can any thing good come
from there?” Nathanael asked.
“Come and see,” said Phil ip.
47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching,
he said of him, “Here tru ly is an Is rael
ite in whom there is no de ceit.”
48 “How do you know me?” Na than a el
asked.
Jesus an swered, “I saw you while you
were still un der the fig tree be fore Phil ip
called you.”
49 Then Na than a el de clared, “Rab bi,
you are the Son of God; you are the king
of Israel.”
50 Jesus said, “You be lieve b be cause I told
you I saw you un der the fig tree. You will see
great er things than that.” 51 He then add ed,
“Very tru ly I tell you, c you c will see ‘heav en
open, and the an gels of God as cend ing and
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descending on’ the Son of Man.”
Jesus Changes Water Into Wine
On the third day a wed ding took place
2 at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was
there, 2 and Jesus and his dis ci ples had
also been in vit ed to the wed ding. 3 When
the wine was gone, Jesus’ moth er said to
him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Wom an,
e
why do you in volve me?”
Jesus re plied. “My hour has not yet come.”
5 His moth er said to the ser vants, “Do
whatever he tells you.”
6 Near by stood six stone wa ter jars, the
kind used by the Jews for cer e mo ni al
wash ing, each hold ing from twen ty to
thirty gallons.
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7 Jesus said to the ser vants, “Fill the
jars with wa ter”; so they filled them to
the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out
and take it to the mas ter of the ban quet.”
They did so, 9 and the mas ter of the
ban quet tast ed the wa ter that had been
turned into wine. He did not re al ize where
it had come from, though the ser vants
who had drawn the wa ter knew. Then he
called the bride groom aside 10 and said,
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first
and then the cheap er wine af ter the guests
have had too much to drink; but you have
saved the best till now.”
11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Gal i lee
was the first of the signs through which
he re vealed his glo ry; and his dis ci ples
be lieved in him.
12 Af ter this he went down to Ca per naum
with his moth er and broth ers and his
dis ci ples. There they stayed for a few days.
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
13 When it was al most time for the Jew ish
Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In
the tem ple courts he found peo ple sell ing
cat tle, sheep and doves, and oth ers sit ting
at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made
a whip out of cords, and drove all from the
tem ple courts, both sheep and cat tle; he
scat tered the coins of the mon ey chang ers
and over turned their ta bles. 16 To those
who sold doves he said, “Get these out of
here! Stop turn ing my Fa ther’s house into
a mar ket!” 17 His dis ci ples re mem bered
that it is writ ten: “Zeal for your house will
consume me.”
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18 The Jews then re spond ed to him,
“What sign can you show us to prove your
au thor i ty to do all this?”
19 Jesus an swered them, “De stroy this
tem ple, and I will raise it again in three
days.”
20 They re plied, “It has tak en for ty-six
years to build this tem ple, and you are
go ing to raise it in three days?” 21 But the
a 42 Cephas (Aramaic) and Peter (Greek) both mean rock. b 50 Or Do you believe . . . ?
c 51 The Greek is plural. d 51 Gen. 28:12 e 4 The Greek for Woman does not denote any
disrespect. f 6 Or from about 75 to about 115 liters g 17 Psalm 69:9