1No terceiro dia houve um casamento em Caná da Galileia. A mãe de Jesus estava ali;2Jesus e seus discípulos também haviam sido convidados para o casamento.3Tendo acabado o vinho, a mãe de Jesus lhe disse: “Eles não têm mais vinho”.4Respondeu Jesus: “Que temos nós em comum, mulher? A minha hora ainda não chegou”.5Sua mãe disse aos serviçais: “Façam tudo o que ele mandar”.6Ali perto havia seis potes de pedra, do tipo usado pelos judeus para as purificações cerimoniais; em cada pote cabiam entre oitenta e cento e vinte litros[1].7Disse Jesus aos serviçais: “Encham os potes com água”. E os encheram até a borda.8Então lhes disse: “Agora, levem um pouco ao encarregado da festa”. Eles assim fizeram,9e o encarregado da festa provou a água que fora transformada em vinho, sem saber de onde este viera, embora o soubessem os serviçais que haviam tirado a água. Então chamou o noivo10e disse: “Todos servem primeiro o melhor vinho e, depois que os convidados já beberam bastante, o vinho inferior é servido; mas você guardou o melhor até agora”.11Este sinal milagroso, em Caná da Galileia, foi o primeiro que Jesus realizou. Revelou assim a sua glória, e os seus discípulos creram nele.
Jesus Purifica o Templo
12Depois disso ele desceu a Cafarnaum com sua mãe, seus irmãos e seus discípulos. Ali ficaram durante alguns dias.13Quando já estava chegando a Páscoa judaica, Jesus subiu a Jerusalém.14No pátio do templo viu alguns vendendo bois, ovelhas e pombas, e outros assentados diante de mesas, trocando dinheiro.15Então ele fez um chicote de cordas e expulsou todos do templo, bem como as ovelhas e os bois; espalhou as moedas dos cambistas e virou as suas mesas.16Aos que vendiam pombas disse: “Tirem estas coisas daqui! Parem de fazer da casa de meu Pai um mercado!”17Seus discípulos lembraram-se que está escrito: “O zelo pela tua casa me consumirá”.18Então os judeus lhe perguntaram: “Que sinal milagroso o senhor pode mostrar-nos como prova da sua autoridade para fazer tudo isso?”19Jesus lhes respondeu: “Destruam este templo, e eu o levantarei em três dias”.20Os judeus responderam: “Este templo levou quarenta e seis anos para ser edificado, e o senhor vai levantá-lo em três dias?”21Mas o templo do qual ele falava era o seu corpo.22Depois que ressuscitou dos mortos, os seus discípulos lembraram-se do que ele tinha dito. Então creram na Escritura e na palavra que Jesus dissera.23Enquanto estava em Jerusalém, na festa da Páscoa, muitos viram os sinais milagrosos que ele estava realizando e creram em seu nome[2].24Mas Jesus não se confiava a eles, pois conhecia a todos.25Não precisava que ninguém lhe desse testemunho a respeito do homem, pois ele bem sabia o que havia no homem.
1On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. (Jo 1:29; Jo 1:35; Jo 1:43; Jo 4:46; Jo 21:2)2Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. (Jo 1:40)3When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”4And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” (2 Sm 16:10; Jo 7:30; Jo 8:20; Jo 13:1; Jo 19:26)5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”6Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.[1] (2 Cr 4:5; Mc 7:3; Jo 3:25)7Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.8And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.9When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom (Jo 4:46)10and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”11This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. (Jo 1:14; Jo 2:2)12After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers[2] and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. (Mt 12:46)
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. (Dt 16:1; Lc 2:41; Jo 2:23; Jo 6:4; Jo 11:55)14In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. (Ml 3:1; Mt 21:12; Mc 11:15; Lc 19:45)15And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.16And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” (Lc 2:49; Jo 14:2)17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” (Sl 69:9)18So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” (Ex 4:1; Ex 4:8; Ex 7:9; Mt 12:38; Jo 4:48; Jo 6:30)19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (Mt 26:61; Mt 27:40; Mc 14:58; Mc 15:29; Jo 10:18)20The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,[3] and will you raise it up in three days?”21But he was speaking about the temple of his body. (Jo 1:14; 1 Co 6:19; Cl 2:9)22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. (Sl 16:10; Lc 24:8; Jo 12:16; Jo 20:9)
Jesus Knows What Is in Man
23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. (Jo 11:45)24But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people (Mt 9:4; Jo 1:48; Jo 5:42; Jo 6:14; Jo 6:61; Jo 6:64; Jo 16:30)25and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. (Jo 2:24)