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On the third day there was a wedding in
Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus
was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples
were also invited to the wedding. 3 When
the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus
said to him, "They have no
wine." 4 (And) Jesus said to her,
"Woman, how does your concern
affect me? My hour has not yet
come." 5 His mother said to the
servers, "Do whatever he tells
you." 6 Now there were six stone
water jars there for Jewish ceremonial
washings, each holding twenty to thirty
gallons. 7 Jesus told them, "Fill
the jars with water." So they
filled them to the brim. 8 Then he told
them, "Draw some out now and take
it to the headwaiter." So
they took it. 9 And when the headwaiter
tasted the water that had become wine,
without knowing where it came from
(although the servers who had drawn the
water knew), the headwaiter called the
bridegroom 10 and said to him,
"Everyone serves good wine first,
and then when people have drunk freely,
an inferior one; but you have kept the
good wine until now." 11 Jesus did
this as the beginning of his signs in
Cana in Galilee and so revealed his
glory, and his disciples began to |
