New English Translation

John 2:9-21 New English Translation (NET)

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!”

17. His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

18. So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”

19. Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

20. Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

21. But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.