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The Gospel of John

{1:41} First, he found his brother Simon, and he said to him, “We have found the Messiah,” (which is translated as the Christ). {1:42} And he led him to Jesus. And Jesus, gazing at him, said: “You are Simon, son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas,” (which is translated as Peter).

{1:43} On the next day, he wanted to go into Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

{1:44} Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. {1:45} Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the Law and the Prophets: Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” {1:46} And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good be from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” {1:47} Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and he said about him, “Behold, an Israelite in whom truly there is no deceit.” {1:48} Nathanael said to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus responded and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” {1:49} Nathanael answered him and said: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.” {1:50} Jesus responded and said to him: “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe. Greater things than these, you will see.”

{1:51} And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the Angels of God ascending and descending over the Son of man.”

[John 2] {2:1} And on the third day, a wedding was held in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

{2:2} Now Jesus was also invited to the wedding, with his disciples. {2:3} And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” {2:4} And Jesus said to her: “What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet arrived.” {2:5} His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” {2:6} Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.

{2:7} Jesus said to them, “Fill the water jars with water.” And they filled them to the very top. {2:8} And Jesus said to them, “Now draw from it, and carry it to the chief steward of the feast.” And they took it to him. {2:9} Then, when the chief steward had tasted the water made into wine, since he did not know where it was from, for only the servants who had drawn the water knew, the chief steward called the groom, {2:10} and he said to him: “Every man offers the good wine first, and then, when they have become inebriated, he offers what is worse. But you have kept the good wine until now.” {2:11} This was the beginning of the signs that Jesus accomplished in Cana of Galilee, and it manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him. {2:12} After this, he descended to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, but they did not remain there for many days.

{2:13} And the Passover of the Jews was near, and so Jesus ascended to Jerusalem. {2:14} And he found, sitting in the temple, sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers. {2:15} And when he had made something like a whip out of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the brass coins of the moneychangers, and he overturned their tables. {2:16} And to those who were selling doves, he said: “Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father’s house into a house of commerce.” {2:17} And truly, his disciples were reminded that it is written: “Zeal for your house consumes me.”

{2:18} Then the Jews responded and said to him, “What sign can you show to us, that you may do these things?”

{2:19} Jesus responded and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” {2:20} Then the Jews said, “This temple has been built up over forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?” {2:21} Yet he was speaking about the Temple of his body.