Book of Common Prayer

¹² My brothers, take care that not one of you has a heart that does not believe. Such a heart will take you away from the living God.

¹³ But talk to each other every day while `Today' lasts, so that wrong ways will not fool any one of you and your hearts become hard.

¹⁴ We have our part with Christ if we go on to the end and believe in him as we did at first.

¹⁵ God is still saying now, `Today, when you hear me speak, do not make your hearts hard. That is what happened when the people turned against me.'

¹⁶ Who were the people who heard him and yet made him very angry? It was all the people whom Moses led out of the country of Egypt.

¹⁷ With whom was God angry for forty years? He was angry with the people who had done wrong. And they died in the desert.

¹⁸ Who were the people God said would never go into his resting place? They were the people who would not listen to him.

¹⁹ So then, we see that they could not go in because they did not believe him.

2 Two days later there was a wedding in the town of Cana in the country of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.

² Jesus and his disciples were also asked to the wedding.

³ The people needed more wine. Then Jesus' mother said to him, `They have no wine.'

⁴ Jesus said, `Woman, why are you telling me about it? It is not yet the time for me to do something.'

⁵ His mother said to the servants, `Do all that he tells you to do.'

⁶ Six very large water pots made of stone were standing there. The pots were there because the Jews had a certain law about washing themselves.

⁷ Jesus said, `Fill the pots with water.' So they filled them to the very top.

⁸ Jesus said, `Now take some out. Carry it to the one in charge of the feast.' They did what he said.

⁹ The man in charge of the feast tasted the water that was now turned into wine. He did not know where it came from, but the servants who drew the water knew. When the man had tasted it, he called the man who was being married.

¹⁰ He said, `Other people give the good wine at the beginning of the feast. When people have had all they want, then they give the wine which is not so good. But you have kept the good wine until now.'

¹¹ This was the first big work that Jesus did. It was in Cana in Galilee. He showed that he was great. And his disciples believed in him.

¹² After this he went to the town called Capernaum. His mother, his brothers, and his disciples also went with him. They stayed there for a few days.