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This is the one I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’
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I didn’t know him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel.”
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I didn’t know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The one you see the Spirit descending and resting on—he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
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When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
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“Come and you’ll see,” he replied. So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon.
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Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.
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He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated “the Christ”),
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and he brought Simon to Jesus. When Jesus saw him, he said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated “Peter”).
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Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.
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“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him. “Come and see,” Philip answered.
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Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
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“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.
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Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”
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The First Sign: Turning Water into Wine
On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’s mother was there,
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“What has this concern of yours to do with me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”
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Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.
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“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.
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When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom
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and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”
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Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
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After this, he went down to Capernaum, together with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.
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Cleansing the Temple
The Jewish Passover was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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In the temple he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there.
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After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables.
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And his disciples remembered that it is written: class="quote">Zeal class="quote">for your house will consume class="quote">me.
