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Welcome to Day 2137 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 5 \u2013 Wine...Coins...and Signs \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 Part 2 Presentation of the Word \u2013 Wine\u2026Coins\u2026and Signs\nToday we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. This message begins with the miracles of Christ.\n\nJohn 2:1-25\n\nThe next day\xa0there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus\u2019 mother was there,\xa0and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration.\xa0The wine supply ran out during the festivities, so Jesus\u2019 mother told him, \u201cThey have no more wine.\u201d\n\n\u201cDear woman, that\u2019s not our problem,\u201d\xa0Jesus replied.\xa0\u201cMy time has not yet come.\u201d\n\nBut his mother told the servants, \u201cDo whatever he tells you.\u201d\n\nStanding nearby were six stone water jars, used for Jewish ceremonial washing. Each could hold twenty to thirty gallons. \xa0Jesus told the servants,\xa0\u201cFill the jars with water.\u201d\xa0When the jars had been filled,\xa0he said,\xa0\u201cNow dip some out, and take it to the master of ceremonies.\u201d\xa0So the servants followed his instructions.\n\nWhen the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from (though, of course, the servants knew), he called the bridegroom over.\xa0\u201cA host always serves the best wine first,\u201d he said. \u201cThen, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!\u201d\n\nThis miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him.\n\nAfter the wedding he went to Capernaum for a few days with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples.\n\nIt was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.\xa0In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money.\xa0Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle,/ scattered the money changers\u2019 coins over the floor,/ and turned over their tables.\xa0Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them,\xa0\u201cGet these things out of here. Stop turning my Father\u2019s house into a marketplace!\u201d\n\nThen his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: \u201cPassion for God\u2019s house will consume me.\u201d\n\nBut the Jewish leaders demanded, \u201cWhat are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.\u201d\n\n\u201cAll right,\u201d\xa0Jesus replied.\xa0\u201cDestroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat!\u201d they exclaimed. \u201cIt has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days? But when Jesus said \u201cthis temple,\u201d he meant his own body.\xa0After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.\n\nBecause of the miraculous signs Jesus did in...