Read the New Testament in 24 Weeks

They All Visit a Wedding, Where Jesus Reveals His Glory By Turning Water Into Wine

2 And on the third^[a] day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. And the mother of Jesus was there. ² And both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding-celebration. ³ And it having come-short-of wine, the mother of Jesus says to Him, “They do not have wine”. ⁴ And Jesus says to her, “What^[b] do I have to do with you, woman^[c]? My hour has not yet come”. ⁵ His mother says to the servants, “Do^[d] whatever thing He says to you”. ⁶ Now six stone waterpots were setting there for the purification^[e] [rite] of the Jews, each having-room-for two or three measures^[f]. ⁷ Jesus says to them, “Fill the waterpots with water”. And they filled them up to the top. ⁸ And He says to them, “Draw some now, and carry it to the headwaiter^[g]”. And the ones carried it. ⁹ And when the headwaiter tasted the water having become wine— and he did not know where it was from, but the servants having drawn the water knew— the headwaiter calls the bridegroom, ¹⁰ and says to him, “Every person first puts out the fine wine, and when they get-drunk^[h], the lesser. You have kept the fine wine until now”. ¹¹ Jesus did this beginning^[i] of signs in Cana of Galilee, and revealed His glory. And His disciples believed in Him. ¹² After this He went down to Capernaum— He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples. And they stayed there not many days.

At The Passover, Consumed By Zeal For God’s House, Jesus Cleanses The Temple

¹³ And the Passover [Feast] of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And in the temple, He found the ones selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers-of-money sitting [at their tables]. ¹⁵ And having made a lash^[j] from ropes, He drove them all out of the temple, and^[k] the sheep and the oxen. And He poured-out the coin of the money-changers. And He overturned the tables. ¹⁶ And He said to the ones selling the doves, “Take these things from here. Do not be making the house of My Father a house of a market”. ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it has been written [in Ps 69:9], “Zeal for Your house will consume Me”. ¹⁸ Then the Jews responded and said to Him, “What sign do You show us, that you are doing these things?” ¹⁹ Jesus responded and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it”. ²⁰ Then the Jews said, “This temple was built for forty and six years, and You will raise it in three days?” ²¹ But that One was speaking about the temple of His body. ²² So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He was saying this, and believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.

Many Believed, But Jesus Did Not Entrust Himself To Them

²³ Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover during the Feast, many believed in His name, seeing His signs which He was doing. ²⁴ But Jesus Himself was not entrusting Himself to them— because of His knowing all people; ²⁵ and because He was having no need that someone should testify about the person, for He Himself was knowing what was in the person.

Nicodemus, a Ruler of The Jews, Comes To Jesus, And Is Told He Must Be Born Again

3 Now there was a man from the Pharisees— the name for him was Nicodemus— a ruler of the Jews. ² This one came to Him by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher. For no one is able to be doing these signs which You are doing unless God is with him”. ³ Jesus responded and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you— unless one is born again^[l], he is not able to see the kingdom of God”. ⁴ Nicodemus says to Him, “How is a person able to be born while being an old-man? He is not able to enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born, is he?” ⁵ Jesus responded, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water^[m] and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ The thing having been born of the flesh is flesh, and the thing having been born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You^[n] all must be born again’— ⁸ the wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know from where it comes, and where it is going. So^[o] is everyone having been born of the Spirit”. ⁹ Nicodemus responded and said to Him, “How are these^[p] things able to happen?” ¹⁰ Jesus responded and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and you do not understand these things? ¹¹ Truly, truly, I say to you that we are speaking what we know, and we are testifying what we have seen, and you^[q] people are not receiving our testimony. ¹² If I told you people earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³ And no one has gone up into heaven except the One having come down from heaven— the Son of Man. ¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted-up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up ¹⁵ in order that everyone putting-faith in Him may have^[r] eternal life.

God Sent His Son Into The World That All Believing In Him May Have Eternal Life

¹⁶ “For^[s] God so^[t] loved the world that He gave His only-born Son, in order that everyone believing in Him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send-forth the Son into the world in order that He might judge^[u] the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one believing in Him is not judged. But the one not believing has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-born Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment^[v]: that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing bad things hates the Light, and does not come to the Light in order that his works may not be exposed. ²¹ But the one doing the truth comes to the Light in order that his works may become-visible— that^[w] they have been worked in^[x] God”.

Jesus Goes To Judea. John The Baptist Declares Himself The Friend of The Bridegroom

²² After these things Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean land, and there He was spending-time with them and baptizing. ²³ Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there were many waters^[y] there. And they were coming and being baptized. ²⁴ For John had not yet been thrown into prison. ²⁵ Then a debate^[z] arose from the disciples of John with a Jew about purification. ²⁶ And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, concerning Whom you have testified, look— this One is baptizing, and all are going to Him!” ²⁷ John responded and said “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves are testifying concerning me that I said that ‘I am not the Christ’, but that ‘I am one having been sent-forth ahead of that One’. ²⁹ The one having the bride is the bridegroom. And the friend of the bridegroom, the one standing there and hearing him, rejoices with joy^[aa] because of the voice of the bridegroom. So this^[ab], my joy, has been made-full. ³⁰ It-is-necessary for that One to grow, and for me to diminish.

Jesus Has Come From Heaven With The Words of God. He Is Above All

³¹ “The^[ac] One coming from-above is above^[ad] all. The one being from the earth is from the earth and is speaking from the earth. The One coming from heaven is above all. ³² What He has seen and did hear— this He is testifying. And no one is receiving His testimony. ³³ The one having received His testimony certified^[ae] that God is truthful, ³⁴ for He Whom God sent forth is speaking the words of God. For He does not give Him the Spirit from a measure^[af]. ³⁵ The Father loves the Son, and has given all things in His hand. ³⁶ The one believing in the Son has eternal life. But the one disobeying^[ag] the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him”.