John 2

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¹On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, ✦ ²and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding. ✦ ³When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.” ✦ ⁴“Woman, why does this concern us?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” ✦ ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.” ✦ ⁶Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons. ✦ ⁷Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. ✦ ⁸“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, ✦ ⁹and 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 ✦ ¹⁰and 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!” ✦ ¹¹Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. ✦ ¹²After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days. ✦ ¹³When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ✦ ¹⁴In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables. ✦ ¹⁵So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ✦ ¹⁶To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!” ✦ ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.” ✦ ¹⁸On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?” ✦ ¹⁹Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” ✦ ²⁰“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” ²¹But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. ✦ ²²After 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. ✦ ²³While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name. ✦ ²⁴But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all. ✦ ²⁵He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

John 6 ·12 John 1 ·11 John 2 ·8 Mark 11 ·5 Matt 12 ·5 John 20 ·5 John 12 ·5 John 7 ·5

Christ at the center

John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.

How John 2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Resources, by level

Lay

★ Start hereDocumentaryFollowing the MessiahAppian Media · Free · evangelical
A free, beautifully shot 10-part series walking the lands of Jesus' life — Bethlehem, Galilee, Jerusalem, and more.
★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
Free animated overviews of every book of the Bible, plus themes and Hebrew/Greek word studies — the best visual on-ramp to any book. (Biblical-theology, broadly evangelical, not distinctly Reformed.)
★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical
A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.
DocumentaryHolyLandSiteHolyLandSite · Free · evangelical
Free on-location videos tying biblical events to the actual sites in Israel — the Temple Mount, Galilee, Capernaum, and more.
ApologeticsCold-Case Christianity (J. Warner Wallace)J. Warner Wallace · Free · evangelical
A cold-case homicide detective examines the Gospels' reliability — forensic faith for skeptics and seekers.

Pastoral

★ Start hereSermonMLJ Trust — Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermonsMartyn Lloyd-Jones · Free · reformed
1,600+ free sermons from "the Doctor," including landmark verse-by-verse series (Romans, John, Ephesians, Acts) — a gold standard of expository preaching.
SermonGrace to You — John MacArthurJohn MacArthur · Free · reformed
Decades of careful verse-by-verse expository sermons, especially through the New Testament. (MacArthur, d. 2025; archive remains free.)
SermonGospel in Life — Tim KellerTim Keller · Free · reformed
Tim Keller's gospel-centered preaching — sermons stream free (the complete downloadable archive is paid).
ArticleRecommended NT commentaries (9Marks / Schreiner)Thomas R. Schreiner · Free · reformed
A trusted pastor-oriented guide to the best commentary on each New Testament book.
SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.
VideoVerse By Verse Ministry InternationalVerse By Verse Ministry Int'l · Free · evangelical
In-depth, verse-by-verse expository teaching book-by-book — strong for working straight through a whole New Testament book.
VideoLook at the Book — John PiperJohn Piper · Free · reformed
Watch Piper trace the logic of a passage phrase by phrase on screen — a model of close reading.

Seminary

★ Start hereApologeticsGary Habermas — the resurrectionGary Habermas · Free · evangelical
130+ free videos and lectures from the scholar behind the "minimal facts" method — the start-here on the historical evidence for the resurrection. (Only his books are paid.)
★ Start hereCommentaryThe Gospel According to John (Pillar NT Commentary)D. A. Carson · ~720 pp · Paid · reformed
The go-to mid-level exegetical commentary on John — rigorous and readable.

Commentaries & study tools

VideoBibleProject — John videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
VideoWatch teaching on John 2YouTube · Lay · Free
Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.
CommentaryEnduring Word — John 2David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on JohnMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — John 2Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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