New English Translation

John 2:6-16 New English Translation (NET)

6. Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

7. Jesus told the servants, “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.

8. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.

9. When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

10. and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

11. Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

12. After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

13. Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14. He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

15. So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

16. To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”