John 2:1

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On the third day two people were going to be married at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there:

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  • John 4:46 : 46 So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.
  • John 21:2 : 2 Simon Peter, Thomas named Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were all together.
  • John 1:43 : 43 The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.
  • Prov 19:14 : 14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
  • Prov 31:10-12 : 10 Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels. 11 The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure. 12 She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.
  • Matt 12:46 : 46 While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
  • John 1:35 : 35 The day after, John was there again with two of his disciples;
  • Gen 1:27-28 : 27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them. 28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
  • Gen 2:18-25 : 18 And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him 19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name. 20 And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help. 21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: 22 And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man. 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.
  • Josh 19:28 : 28 And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, to great Zidon;
  • Ps 128:1-4 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways. 2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you. 3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table. 4 See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.
  • Prov 18:22 : 22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.
  • Eph 5:30-33 : 30 Because we are parts of his body. 31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church. 33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
  • 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits, 2 Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron; 3 Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

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    2And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.

    3When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

    4Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.

    5His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.

    6Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.

    7Jesus said to the servants, Make the pots full of water. And they made them full to the top.

    8Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.

    9After tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the water out) sent for the newly-married man,

    10And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

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    43And after the two days he went on from there into Galilee.

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