Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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. New Living Translation This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him. English Standard Version This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. Berean Standard Bible Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. Berean Literal Bible This was the beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and He revealed His glory. And His disciples believed in Him. King James Bible This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. New King James Version This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him. New American Standard Bible This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed His glory; and His disciples believed in Him. NASB 1995 This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. NASB 1977 This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. Legacy Standard Bible Jesus did this in Cana of Galilee as the beginning of His signs, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. Amplified Bible This, the first of His signs (attesting miracles), Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed His glory [displaying His deity and His great power openly], and His disciples believed [confidently] in Him [as the Messiah—they adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Him]. Christian Standard Bible Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. Holman Christian Standard Bible Jesus performed this first sign in Cana of Galilee. He displayed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. American Standard Version This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him. Aramaic Bible in Plain English This first miracle Yeshua did in Qatna of Galilee and he manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him. Contemporary English Version This was Jesus' first miracle, and he did it in the village of Cana in Galilee. There Jesus showed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him. Douay-Rheims Bible This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee; and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him. English Revised Version This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him. GOD'S WORD® Translation Cana in Galilee was the place where Jesus began to perform miracles. He made his glory public there, and his disciples believed in him. Good News Translation Jesus performed this first miracle in Cana in Galilee; there he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. International Standard Version Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. Literal Standard Version This [is the] beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him; Majority Standard Bible Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. New American Bible Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him. NET Bible Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. New Revised Standard Version Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. New Heart English Bible This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. Webster's Bible Translation This beginning of miracles Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him. Weymouth New Testament This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him. World English Bible This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. Young's Literal Translation This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Wedding at Cana…10and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!” 11Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him. 12After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.… Cross References Exodus 14:31 When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses. 1 Kings 17:24 Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth." John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:43 The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, "Follow Me." John 2:1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, John 2:23 While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name. John 3:2 He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him." Treasury of Scripture This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. beginning. John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Exodus 4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land. Exodus 7:19-21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone… did. John 1:50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these. John 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. John 4:46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. manifested. John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. John 12:41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. and his. John 11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. John 20:30,31 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: … 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. Jump to Previous Beginning Believed Cana Disciples Displayed First Forth Galilee Glorious Glory Jesus Manifested Miracles Miraculous Openly Performed Power Revealed SignsJump to Next Beginning Believed Cana Disciples Displayed First Forth Galilee Glorious Glory Jesus Manifested Miracles Miraculous Openly Performed Power Revealed SignsJohn 2 1. Jesus turns water into wine;12. departs into Capernaum, 13. and to Jerusalem, 14. where he purges the temple of buyers and sellers. 18. He foretells his death and resurrection. 23. Many believe because of his miracles, but he will not trust himself with them. (11) This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, or, more exactly, This did Jesus in Cana of Galilee as the beginning of His signs. The form of the sentence makes it certain that it is the absolutely first and not the first in Cana which is meant. It is important to note here that St. John uses only once, and that in our Lord's test of the courtier, and connected with "sign" (John 4:48), the word which represents "miracle," "wonder," "portent," and that he nowhere uses the word which represents "powers" or "mighty works." For him they are simply "works," and these "works" are "signs." He thinks of our Lord as the agent in all creation, and the source of all life (John 1:2-3); but this being so, no display of power impresses him, and no wonder startles him. All is the natural "work" of the divine worker; but like Himself, every work is also a word. It speaks to him who hath ears to hear. It is a "sign" to him who can spiritually interpret. That at His will water became wine, is as natural as that, by that will, the rain passing through earth and vine and grape should become wine. From his point of view both are equally explicable; from any other, both are in ultimate analysis equally inexplicable. "Voici le vin qui tombe du ciel!" is the French peasant's expression for the one (comp. Trench's note). "The conscious water saw its God, and blushed," ["Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit"] is the English poet's expression for the other. This gives the key, then, to the selection of "miracles" by St. John, and to their interpretation. He gives those which mark stages of fuller teaching. They are "signs" of a new revelation, and lead to a higher faith. What was the fuller teaching in this first sign? The heart must seek to read it. Words can only seek to guide. Would not those Jews remember the first miracle of Moses, and later, if not then, see here the contrast between the Law which came by Moses, and the grace and truth which came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17)? Would not those exact observers of traditional rites see a living principle growing out of the rite practised at every meal (comp. Mark 7:3, Note), and feel that it is the letter which killeth, it is the Spirit which giveth life? Would not those who thought of Him as the Messianic King of Israel read in His presence at the festal tide of family life the meaning of the claim to be Son of Humanity? Would not the followers of the hermit John learn that Christianity's message is not for the wilderness, but for the hearts of men; and that its life is not one of seclusion from the world, but of moral power in it (John 17:15)? Would not those who had heard the Baptist's record, and had felt and uttered their own convictions, hear now the secret voice of Nature joining in the witness? Some such thoughts as these came to them in a fulness of power they had not known before. It was to them as a new manifestation of His glory, and the disciples again believed. . . . Verse 11. - Jesus made this beginning of signs in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory. The beginning, the earliest of the tokens which he gave of his higher nature and lofty claims and faculties. The word σημεῖα, corresponding with the Hebrew אות, is generally, in the Acts as well as in the LXX., associated with τέρατα, or "portents;" when it occurs in the synoptists it is translated "signs." The word by itself does not connote miraculous energies, but any event, natural or human, which becomes a token or witness to unseen or Divine energies. When Christ's wonderful actions (often called δυνάμεις by the synoptists) are referred to by John, he calls them simply ἔργα; so that operations which, if wrought by other persons, might have been portents, miracles, or marvels, are to him perfectly normal, and are called simply "works." Weiss leaves the question of the manner in which this supply of wine was provided entirely unsettled, but declares that, whether by some fortunate providential opportunity, by the forecast of the mother, or by concealed methods of meeting the exigency, this great gift was brought about by the Son of Mary, the effect was the same as if it had been wrought by the Creator's hand. The glory of his power and love and sympathy was manifested. This appears to us utterly inconsistent with the intention or idea of tim evangelist. The impression previously made upon John the Baptist was of his supreme submission to the Divine will, his sacrificial yielding to that will for the taking away of sin; further, that in some sense he was Son of God, and Minister and Organ for the dispensation of the Spirit of God. The few disciples admitted that, by his penetration of their character and hidden inner life, his wisdom was of a different kind from that of men. Now, however, they see a manifestation of his glory as power. He has unlimited resources at his disposal, and his disciples believed on him to that extent. This expression asserts the truth of the selective and discriminating force of the mission of Christ, and the negative fact that the company assembled received no religious impression beyond the most superficial one. "The disciples" who came with him "believed" more than they had done before. It may be that they, especially John and Nathanael of Cana, were among the honorary διάκονοι who were alone fully conscious of what happened on the occasion. They apprehend the "glory," and entirely trust themselves εἰς αὐτόν, to him, and follow him with an added momentum. There are new and wonderful suggestions made in this passage which unveil the glory of the Divine love and power now wrought in man. A point of connection with the synoptic Gospels is that they too record Christ's own description of the contrast between the austere prophet and the Son of man (Matthew 11:18, 19) in terms almost taken from this very scene. Compare also the mode in which Christ vindicated his own social freedom from Pharisaic exclusiveness, and the conduct of his own disciples from that of John the Baptist's disciples in the matter of ceremonial purifications, by his parable of the old wine skins bursting with the new and potent fluid put into them (Matthew 9:14-17 and parallel passages). John gives here a deeper apprehension of the mystery, a keynote to a whole cycle of instructions, on the "glory" of his love. By manifesting his Divine sympathy with marriage, with human life and fellowship, with innocent gladness, he proves himself to be the same Christ of whom the synoptic tradition speaks, the same Jesus who took the children to his arms, and constituted a "marriage supper" the great type of the eternal union between God and man in the gospel of his love (cf. Matthew 22:2, etc.). But this same evangelist is filled with the same imagery dating back to experiences of Cana, when he describes the final victory of the "Lamb of God" (Revelation 19:7; Revelation 21:2).Parallel Commentaries ... Greek JesusἸησοῦς (Iēsous) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites. performed ἐποίησεν (epoiēsen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do. this, Ταύτην (Tautēn) Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it. the first ἀρχὴν (archēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 746: From archomai; a commencement, or chief. of His τῶν (tōn) Article - Genitive Neuter Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. signs, σημείων (sēmeiōn) Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural Strong's 4592: Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of semaino; an indication, especially ceremonially or supernaturally. at ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. Cana Κανὰ (Kana) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 2580: Cana, a town in Galilee. Of Hebrew origin; Cana, a place in Palestine. in Galilee. Γαλιλαίας (Galilaias) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 1056: Of Hebrew origin; Galiloea, a region of Palestine. He thus καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. revealed ἐφανέρωσεν (ephanerōsen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 5319: To make clear (visible, manifest), make known. From phaneros; to render apparent. His αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. glory, δόξαν (doxan) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 1391: From the base of dokeo; glory, in a wide application. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. His αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. disciples μαθηταὶ (mathētai) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3101: A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil. believed ἐπίστευσαν (episteusan) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust. in εἰς (eis) Preposition Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. Him. αὐτὸν (auton) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. 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