Frameworks:
John's Gospel, chapter 2
(The
objective of these ‘Frameworks' is to provide an easy-to-read
layout of the text in order then to use these individual verses
for verse-by-verse study or meditation. To focus each
verse we have also added in in italic a description of what is
happening)
[Additional
Notes: any regular reader of the Bible knows that there are often
footnotes at the bottom of pages explaining possible variants
of a few words in the occasional verse. The footnotes also give
references sometimes of the quotes from the Old Testament. Paul
being a Jewish scholar uses such quotes in increasing numbers
in some of these chapters. References to the ‘Septuagint' is in
respect of Greek translations of the Old Testament scrolls that
started to come into being a little under 300 years before Christ,
initially by seventy two scholars but added to as the years went
on. The reason for the Greek translation is that many Jews lived
outside Israel and historians suggest they came under such Greek
influence that they were more comfortable with Greek rather than
the original Hebrew. The Greek and Hebrew scriptures thus often
differed in small ways of interpretation and New Testament writers
often used the Greek words rather than the original Hebrew, hence
the differences. We have not picked up on general footnotes and
have only included references within the text.]
CHAPTER
2
v.1-12
Jesus Changes Water into Wine
v.13-17
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
v.18-22
Jesus challenged over his authority
v.23-25
Jesus ministers in Jerusalem
v.1-12
Jesus Changes Water into Wine
v.1,2
(venue: a wedding in Cana. Jesus is invited)
On the third day a wedding took place
at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
v.
3 (his mother points out a
crisis) When the wine was gone,
Jesus' mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
v.
4 (Jesus hesitates) “Woman,
why do you involve me?” Jesus
replied. “My hour has not
yet come.”
v.
5 (she nevertheless instructs
the servants) His mother said
to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
v.
6 (there are six large water
jars there) Nearby stood six
stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,
each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
v.
7 (Jesus instructs the servants
to fill them with water) Jesus
said to the servants, “Fill
the jars with water”; so they
filled them to the brim.
v.
8-10 (he then told then to
draw some. It has turned into choice wine) Then
he told them, “Now draw some
out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They
did so, and the master of
the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He
did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who
had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then
the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink;
but you have saved the best till now.”
v.
11 (this first sign stirred
belief) What Jesus did here
in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he
revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
v.
12 (he then went to Capernaum)
After this he went down to Capernaum
with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed
for a few days.
v.13-17
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
v.
13 (at Passover he goes to
Jerusalem) When it was almost
time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
v.
14 (the temple courts have
become a market) In the temple
courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others
sitting at tables exchanging money.
v.
15 (he drove out the animals
and upset the tables) So he
made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts,
both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers
and overturned their tables.
v.
16 (he rebuked the sellers)
To those who sold doves he said,
“Get these out of here! Stop
turning my Father's house into a market!”
v.
17 (later his disciples remember
Psa 69:9) His disciples
remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume
me.”
v.18-22
Jesus challenged over his authority
v.
18 (the Jews demand a sign)
The Jews then responded to him, “What
sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
v.
19 (he challenges destroy
this temple and I will rebuild it) Jesus
answered them, “Destroy this
temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
v.
20 (they deny this is possible)
They replied, “It has taken forty-six
years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three
days?”
v.
21 (but he is referring to
his body) But the temple he
had spoken of was his body.
v.
22 (the disciples remember
this after the resurrection) After
he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had
said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus
had spoken.
v.23-25
Jesus ministers in Jerusalem
v.
23 (he heals people and they
believe) Now while he was in
Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs
he was performing and believed in his name.
v.
24 (yet he didn't open himself
to them) But Jesus would not
entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.
v.
25 (he didn't need their testimonies)
He did not need any testimony about
mankind, for he knew what was in each person.