Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

12 Now, my Christian brothers, I want you to know something about the gifts given by the Holy Spirit.

² You know that before you believed in God, you were led by other men to believe in idols that could not talk.

³ Therefore, I want you to understand this. No person who has the Spirit of God ever curses Jesus. And no one can say, `Jesus is Lord,' if he is not controlled by the Holy Spirit.

⁴ There are different gifts, but there is only one Spirit.

⁵ There are different kinds of work, but there is only one Lord.

⁶ There are different ways of working, but there is only one God. He works in all people and does it all.

⁷ And the Holy Spirit gives each one a gift so that all people may be helped.

⁸ The Spirit gives one person wise words to say. The same Spirit gives another person words of good understanding.

⁹ To another person the same Spirit gives faith, and to another person he gives the power to heal people.

¹⁰ To another person the Spirit gives the power to do big works. Another can speak words from God. To another person he gives the power to know the difference between spirits. To another person he gives the gift to speak the words of God in other tongues or languages, and to another the meaning of these different tongues.

¹¹ And the same Spirit gives the power for all these things. He gives each person what he wants to give to them.

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.