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:A. The Wedding at Cana  1-12
In the other '''Gospel of Matthew Jesus left for 40 days to fast after his [[baptism]]'''.<Ref>[[Matthew 4]]:1 ¶  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.</Ref> But here it would appear the sequence of events in this Gospel from the [[Johannine society]] was to go to '''a wedding on ''the third day''''' in a place identified as Cana<Ref>The ''Cana at Galilee'' (in John 2:1, 11, John 4:46,John 21:2) may not be the traditional site with Cana meaning "place of reeds". Khirbet Cana or Khirbet Qana translated “the ruins of Cana”  is found in lower Galilee in 1998 and has some good evidence for its authenticity. Flavius [[Josephus]] mentions several place named Cana.</Ref>
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| This was no small wedding nor was it the house of a poor man. There were servants. But more than that there were 6 waterpots made of stone with a capacity of ''two or three firkins''. A firkin was about 9 gallons some say precisely 8 7/8 gallons. So if these stone pots each held 2-3 firkins they could have held more than 30 to 35 gallons a piece. Container and its content could way more than 250 pounds a piece and all 6 together if ''filled to the brim'' could hold 150 to 200 gallons or 750 to more than a 1000 bottles of wine. And this was the second bath made available for the guests.
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| It appears the [[John#Sources|source]] for John included many of the written accounts circulating and in the possession of the Johannine society. It is up to us to determine the message of the [[Holy Spirit]] coming by way of our [[heart and mind]].
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| [[2 Thessalonians 2]]:10  "And with all '''deceivableness'''<Ref name="apate">{{539}}</Ref> of [[unrighteousness]]<Ref name="adikia">{{93}}</Ref> in them that perish; because they received not the [[love]] of the [[truth]], that they [[might be saved]]. 11  And for this cause God shall send them '''[[strong delusion]]''', that they should believe a [[lie]]: 12  That they all might be damned<Ref name="krino">{{2919}}</Ref> who believed not the [[truth]], but had pleasure<Ref name="eudokeo">{{2106}}</Ref> in [[unrighteousness]].<Ref name="adikia">{{93}}</Ref>"
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| Jesus Cleanses the Temple 13-22
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| '''V16'''  mentions <span style="color:red">...an house of [[merchandise]].(emporia)<Ref name="emporia">{{1711}}</Ref>'''</span>
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|[[Moneychangers]] are making the house of God a house of [[merchandise]] and Peter uses the same verb in [[2 Peter 2]]:3 when he warns people that they will become [[merchandise]]<Ref name="emporeuomai">{{1710}}</Ref> because of their [[covetous practices]].
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| To understand the problem in the temple we need to understand what [[Pure religion]] was and how it was at the core of the [[Christian conflict]] with the [[Public religion]] of [[Rome]]. <Br>Why the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] was making the word of God to none effect? <Br>How the [[table]] of [[rulers]] that should have been for your [[welfare]] was a [[snare]]? Why was [[covetousness]]<Ref name="jesuscovet">{{jesuscovet}}</Ref> called [[idolatry]]? <Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref><Br>Why the [[Baptism]] of John or [[Christ]] would get Christian [[put out]] of the temple and its [[welfare]] system of [[false religion]] and what that means.
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|The envious and contentious that the system of Charity offended those [[masses]] who became accustomed to living at the expense of others and the process that [[degenerate]]s the [[masses]] and opens the door to despotism.
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|Destroy this temple (v. 22)
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|Jesus Knows What Is in Man
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== The Wedding at Cana ==


1 ¶  And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
2  And both [[Jesus]] was called, and his [[disciples]], to the [[marriage]].

3  And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

4  Jesus saith unto her, <span style="color:red">'''Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.'''</span>

5  His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

6  And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

7  Jesus saith unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Fill the waterpots with water.'''</span> And they filled them up to the brim.

8  And he saith unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast.'''</span> And they bare it.

9  When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

10  And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

11  This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

== Jesus Cleanses the Temple ==

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

13  And the Jews’ [[passover]] was at hand, and Jesus went up to [[Jerusalem]],

=== Moneychangers ===

14  And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the [[moneychangers|changers of money]](''kermatistes'')<Ref name="kermatistes">{{2773}}</Ref>  sitting:

15  And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the [[moneychangers|changers]]’(''kollubistes'')<Ref name="kollubistes">{{2855}}</Ref> money<Ref name="kerma">{{2772}}</Ref>, and overthrew the [[tables]]<Ref name="trapeza">{{5132}}</Ref>;

16  And said unto them that sold doves, <span style="color:red">'''Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of [[merchandise]].(emporion)<Ref name="emporia">{{1711}}</Ref>'''</span>

=== The envious and contentious ===

17  And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal<Ref name="zelos">{{2205}}</Ref> of thine house hath eaten me up.

18  Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?


== Destroy this temple ==

19  Jesus answered and said unto them, <span style="color:red">'''Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.'''</span>

20  Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

21  But he spake of the temple of his body.

22  When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

== Jesus Knows What Is in Man ==

23 ¶  Now when he was in Jerusalem at the [[passover]], in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

24  But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

25  And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.






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