MODERN LITERAL VERSION

2:1 And in the third day, there happened to be a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;
2:2 and Jesus was also invited to the marriage and his disciples.
2:3 And falling-short of wine, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine.

2:4 Jesus says to her, What is this to me and you, woman? My hour does not come yet.

2:5 His mother says to the servants, Whatever he says to you*, do it.
2:6 Now six stone water pots were standing there according to the Jews' cleansing, making room for two or three nine-gallon measures apiece.

2:7 Jesus says to them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them to the top.
2:8 And he says to them, Dip-out some now and carry it to the chief waiter.
And they carried it.
2:9 And as the chief waiter tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it is from (but the servants that had dipped-out the water knew), the chief waiter summons the bridegroom,
2:10 and says to him, Every man first places the good wine on the table, and whenever they are drunken, then the inferior. But you have kept the good wine until now.
2:11 This was the beginning of the signs which Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

2:12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples, and they did not abide there many days.

2:13 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2:14 And he found in the temple those who sold bulls and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting.
2:15 And he made* a scourge from ropes and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the bulls, and he poured out the coinage of the brokers and turned over their tables;
2:16 and to those selling the doves he said, Take these things from here. Do not make* my Father's house a house of merchandise.

2:17 And his disciples remembered that it is written, ‘Zeal of your house will eat me up.' {Ps. 69:9}

2:18 Therefore, the Jews answered and said to him, What sign are you showing to us? Why is it that you are doing these things?

2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, Tear-down this temple and I will lift it up in three days.

2:20 Therefore the Jews said, This temple was forty-six years in building and you will lift it up in three days?
2:21 But he spoke concerning the temple of his body.
2:22 Therefore, when he was raised up from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spoke this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, many believed in his name at the feast, viewing his signs which he was doing.
2:24 But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because of his knowledge of all men,
2:25 and because he had no need that* anyone should testify concerning man; for* he himself knew what was in man.