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John 2

World English Bible, Catholic edition, in plain modern English. About the translations

1 The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. CCC

2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. CCC

3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” 1

4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.” Fathers

5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.” 2

6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom

10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. CCC

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

13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

15 He made a whip of cords and drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.

16 To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!” CCC

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

18 The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?” CCC

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” CCC · Fathers

20 The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?” CCC · Fathers

21 But he spoke of the temple of his body. CCC · Fathers

22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said. CCC

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

24 But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

25 and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

Where our lessons quote this chapter

  1. Verses 3–5: Mary: honored, not worshiped
  2. Verse 5: Mary: honored, not worshiped

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text. The Catechism uses modern verse numbers, so these are listed by chapter.

  1. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 495 “Called in the Gospels "the mother of Jesus", Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before…”
    • CCC 519 “All Christ's riches "are for every individual and are everybody's property." Christ did not live his life for himself but for us,…”
    • CCC 692 “When he proclaims and promises the coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus calls him the "Paraclete," literally, "he who is called to…”
    • CCC 1613 “On the threshold of his public life Jesus performs his first sign - at his mother's request - during a wedding feast.…”
    • CCC 2618 “The Gospel reveals to us how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, The mother of Jesus asks her son for…”
  2. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 605 “At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God's love excludes no one: "So it is not…”
  3. Read the Fathers
    • “mine hour is not yet come”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  4. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 486 “The Father's only Son, conceived as man in the womb of the Virgin Mary, is "Christ", that is to say, anointed by…”
    • CCC 1335 “The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples…”
  5. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 377 “The "mastery" over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self.…”
    • CCC 584 “Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of…”
  6. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 584 “Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of…”
  7. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 575 “Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction", but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the…”
    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 670 “Since the Ascension God's plan has entered into its fulfilment. We are already at "the last hour". "Already the final age of…”
    • CCC 672 “Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by…”
  8. Read the Catechism and Fathers
    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”
    • “He spake this, however," it is said, "of the temple of His body.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  9. Read the Catechism and Fathers
    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”
    • CCC 91 “All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs…”
    • “He spake this, however," it is said, "of the temple of His body.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  10. Read the Catechism and Fathers
    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”
    • “He spake this, however," it is said, "of the temple of His body.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  11. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 586 “Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay…”
    • CCC 675 “Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution…”
    • CCC 994 “But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It…”
  12. John 2:27 in modern BiblesCCC 91
    Read the Catechism
    • CCC 91 “All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs…”