tl And on the third day a wedding took place at Cana, in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; and Jesus also, and his disciples, had been invited to the wedding. And when the wine gave out, Jesus' mother said to him: They have no wine. Jesus said to her: What is that to you and me, madam? My time has not yet come. His mother said to the servants: Do whatever he tells you. Now there were six stone water jars set by for the lustration, which is the custom of the Jews, each holding two or three measures. Jesus said to them: Fill the jars with water. And they filled them to the brim. And he said to them: Now pour it out and take it to the master of the feast. And they took it to him. When the master of the feast tasted the water that had turned into wine—and did not know where it came from, but the servants who had poured it knew—the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him: Everybody first puts out the good wine and the poorer wine after they have drunk well; but you kept the good wine until now. This was the first of his miracles Jesus performed, at Cana in Galilee, and displayed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
After this he went down to Capernaum, himself and his
mother and his brothers and disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
And the Passover of the Jews drew near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And in the temple he found people selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there; and he made a scourge out of ropes and drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables, and to the sellers of doves he said: Take these things out of here; stop making the house of my father a house of business. His disciples remembered that it is written: Jealous concern for your house consumes me. The Jews spoke forth and said to him: What sign do you give us that you can do this? Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again. But the Jews said: This temple was built in forty-six years; and you will raise it up in three days? But he had been speaking of the temple of his body. Thus when he rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and believed in the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. But when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the festival, many believed in his name, seeing the miracles he performed. But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew them all, and knew that he had no need for anyone to tell him about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
tl There was a man ^ong the Pharisees, Nicodemus by name, a councillor of the Jews. He came to Jesus at night and said to him: Master, we know that you came as a teacher from God; for no one could perform the miracles you perform if God were not with him. Jesus answered and said to him: Truly truly I tell you, if one is not born from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Surely he cannot enter his mother's womb a second time and be born? Jesus answered: Truly truly I tell you, if one is not born from water and spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the spirit is spirit. Do not wonder because I told you: You must be born from above. The wind blows where it will, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born from the spirit. Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can this happen? Jesus answered and said to him: You are the teacher of Israel and do not understand this? Truly truly I tell you that we tell you what we know, and testify to what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. If I tell you of earthly matters and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of heavenly matters? And no one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the son of man. And as Moses raised up the snake in the desert, so must the son of man be raised up, so that everyone who believes in him may have everlasting life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be destroyed but may have everlasting life. For God did not send his son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world could be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe in him has already been judged, because he did not believe in the name of the only son of God. This is the judgment, because the light came into the world and people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were wicked. For everyone who does bad things hates the light and does not come toward the light, lest his actions be discovered; but he who accomplishes the truth comes toward the light, so that it may be made clear that his actions were with God.
After this Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judaea, and there he spent some time with them and baptized. And John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there were many waters there, and the people c^e to him and were baptized. For John had not yet been thrown into prison. Now there was a dispute between the disciples of John and a Jew about lustration. And they came to John and said to him: Master, the one who was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you testified, see, he is baptizing and all come to ^m. John answered and said: A man cannot receive anything unless it is given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear witness that I said: I am not the Christ. But I said: I am sent before him. He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens to him, rejoices with a joy that comes from the voice of the bridegroom. This is my joy which is fulfilled. He must increase, and I must be diminished. He who comes from above is above all. He who comes from the earth is of the earth and speaks from the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. What he testifies to is what he has seen and heard, and no one accepts his testimony. He who accepts his testimony proves that God is true. For he whom God sent speaks the words of God, for there is no measure to what the spirit gives. The father loves the son and has given all things into his hand. He who believes in the son has everlasting life; but he who disbelieves in the son will not see life, but the anger of God remains upon him.
4[ When the Lord realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making more converts than John and baptizing them (in fact, Jesus himself was not baptizing but his disciples were), he left Judaea and went back to Galilee. He had to pass through Samaria. So he came to the city in Samaria which is called Sychar, near the piece of land which Jacob gave to Joseph his son. There was a well of Jacob there. Now Jesus was tired from his journey and thus sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: Give me a drink. For his disciples had gone off to the city to buy provisions. So the Samaritan woman said to him: How is it that you, a Jew, are asking for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? [For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.] Jesus answered and said to her: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you: Give me a drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. She said to him: Lord, you have no bucket to let down, and the well is deep. From where then do you have the living water? Surely you are not greater than Jacob our forefather, who gave us this well, who drank from it himself, as did his sons and his cattle. Jesus answered and said to her: Whoever drinks from this water will be thirsty again; but he who drinks from the water I shall give will not be thirsty forever- more, but the water I shall give him will turn within him into a spring of water jetting up into everlasting life. The woman said to him: Lord, give me this water so I shall not be thirsty or have to come here to draw it up. He said to her: Go and tell your husband and come back. The woman answered and said to him: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You did well to say: I have no husband. You have had five husbands and the one you have now is not your husband. What you said was true. The woman said to him: Lord, I see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; but you people say that Jerusalem is the place where one should worship. Jesus said to her: Believe me, madam, the time is coming when you will worship the father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews. But the time is coming and it is now when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the spirit and in truth, for the Father looks for such worshippers. God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in the spirit and in truth. The woman said to him: I know that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming. When he comes, he will tell us all. Jesus said to her: I am he, talking to you.