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John 2:1-8 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. Three days later Mary, the mother of Jesus, was at a wedding feast in the village of Cana in Galilee.

2. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited and were there.

3. When the wine was all gone, Mary said to Jesus, “They don't have any more wine.”

4. Jesus replied, “Mother, my time hasn't yet come! You must not tell me what to do.”

5. Mary then said to the servants, “Do whatever Jesus tells you to do.”

6. At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about a hundred litres.

7. Jesus told the servants to fill them to the top with water. Then after the jars had been filled,

8. he said, “Now take some water and give it to the man in charge of the feast.”The servants did as Jesus told them,

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