John 2 — Greek text and reception
Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.
Chapter 2
The sign at Cana and the sanctuary of His body
Verse 2:1
Greek–English Saints Priority
And on the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The third day and Cana in Galilee are explicit; Jesus’ mother is identified relationally without a personal name. Reception: A008 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:2
Greek–English Saints Priority
Jesus and His disciples were also invited to the wedding.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The invitation includes Jesus and His disciples; the verse does not state who issued it. Reception: A008 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:3
Greek–English Saints Priority
When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The shortage is wine, and the mother reports it to Jesus without an expressed imperative. Reception: A008 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:4
Greek–English Saints Priority
And Jesus said to her, “What is this to Me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet come.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: Τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί is a relational idiom, literally ‘What to Me and to you?’ The rendering preserves the question without choosing an expanded rebuke or assertion of shared purpose. ‘Woman’ reproduces the form of address; its tone must be read in context. Reception: A008 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:5
Greek–English Saints Priority
His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He tells you, do.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The command to the servants is unrestricted by an expressed task: they are to do whatever Jesus says. Reception: A009 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:6
Greek–English Saints Priority
Now six stone water jars were set there for the purification of the Jews, each holding two or three metretes.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: A metretēs is an ancient liquid measure. The text specifies six stone jars and two or three measures each; neither the range nor the unit is replaced by a guessed total in modern gallons. Reception: A009 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:7
Greek–English Saints Priority
Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them to the top.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The filling reaches the top; that fullness belongs to the narrated action, not an added estimate of volume. Reception: A009 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:8
Greek–English Saints Priority
And He said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: ἀρχιτρίκλινος names the official overseeing the feast; “master of the feast” distinguishes him from the bridegroom. Reception: A009 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:9
Greek–English Saints Priority
When the master of the feast tasted the water that had become wine and did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—the master of the feast called the bridegroom
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The master’s ignorance contrasts with the servants’ knowledge of the water’s origin; the sentence leads into his speech in 2:10. Reception: A009 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:10
Greek–English Saints Priority
and said to him, “Everyone sets out the good wine first, and when people have become drunk, the inferior wine. You have kept the good wine until now.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: μεθυσθῶσιν means become drunk or intoxicated. The statement is the feast master’s description of customary serving, not the narrator’s independent assertion that every guest was intoxicated. Reception: A009 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:11
Greek–English Saints Priority
Jesus did this as the beginning of His signs in Cana of Galilee and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: ἀρχή is beginning, here of the signs. ‘Sign’ is kept distinct from a generic label of marvel. Reception: A009 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:12
Greek–English Saints Priority
After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and the brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there not many days.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The base has ‘the brothers’ without an explicit possessive here. The family reference is left without an added genealogical explanation. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Textual: NA28 reads οἱ ἀδελφοὶ [αὐτοῦ] (SBLGNT οἱ ἀδελφοὶ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “His brothers” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).
Verse 2:13
Greek–English Saints Priority
Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: Passover supplies the occasion for the ascent to Jerusalem; no relocation of this episode to a later Gospel chronology is made. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:14
Greek–English Saints Priority
And He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated there.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The animals are oxen, sheep and doves; the money changers are a further named group within the temple setting. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:15
Greek–English Saints Priority
Making a whip from cords, He drove them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned their tables.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: ‘All’ is followed by ‘both the sheep and the oxen.’ Whether this explicitly includes people as the whip’s targets is not stated by the syntax alone; the translation does not add striking or injury. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:16
Greek–English Saints Priority
And He said to those selling the doves, “Take these things away from here. Do not make My Father’s house a house of trade.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The objection is making the Father’s house a house of trade; a den-of-robbers saying is not imported from another account. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:17
Greek–English Saints Priority
His disciples remembered that it is written, “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The source citation is future, ‘will consume Me,’ not past. Clear divine reference follows the project’s pronoun convention. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:18
Greek–English Saints Priority
So the Jews answered Him, “What sign do You show us, since You do these things?”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The question demands an authorizing sign for the actions just narrated, rather than simply asking what happened. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:19
Greek–English Saints Priority
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: ναός, sanctuary, differs from ἱερόν, temple precincts, in verses fourteen–fifteen. The same sanctuary word is repeated in verses twenty–twenty-one, enabling the body interpretation given by the narrator. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:20
Greek–English Saints Priority
So the Jews said, “This sanctuary was built in forty-six years, and will You raise it in three days?”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The stated period is forty-six years. The reply’s aorist construction is retained without reconstructing a building chronology. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:21
Greek–English Saints Priority
But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The narrator explicitly identifies the sanctuary with Jesus’ body, resolving the preceding misunderstanding within John’s account. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:22
Greek–English Saints Priority
When, therefore, He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The disciples’ remembering and believing occur after the resurrection; Scripture and Jesus’ saying are both named objects of belief. Reception: A010 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:23
Greek–English Saints Priority
While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, seeing the signs He was doing.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The report connects belief in His name with observing signs; the contrasting response of Jesus follows in 2:24. Reception: A011 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:24
Greek–English Saints Priority
But Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew everyone
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: πιστεύω links the preceding belief to Jesus’ refusal to entrust Himself to them. The English verbs differ because the constructions differ. Reception: A011 (see the passage reception register).
Verse 2:25
Greek–English Saints Priority
and because He had no need for anyone to testify concerning humanity, for He Himself knew what was within a person.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual: The first ἄνθρωπος is generic humanity, followed by what is within a person. The rendering does not narrow the statement to one unnamed man. Reception: A011 (see the passage reception register).