John 2

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¹On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ✦ ²Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. ✦ 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.” ✦ 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. ✦ 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 ✦ 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. ✦ ¹²After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. ✦ ¹³The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ✦ ¹⁴In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ✦ 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.” ✦ ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” ✦ ¹⁸So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” ✦ ¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ✦ ²⁰The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about the temple of his body. ✦ 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. ✦ ²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. ✦ ²⁴But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people ✦ ²⁵and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in 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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