John 2:1-25

Here is my summary of Chapter 2:

Jesus Changes Water Into Wine:

The second chapter of John begins with the miracle of Jesus turning the water into wine at a marriage at Cana. He is attending a wedding with his disciples and the hosts run out of wine. His mother is also there and asks him to help. He seems annoyed that she would ask him for a miracle and says that it is not his time yet. Nevertheless, she still tells the servants to do whatever he asks, so he tells them to fill up the empty wine containers with water. Afterwards, the person in charge of the wedding tastes it and remarks to the groom that they have saved the best wine for last. John tells his audience that the water was there for the Jewish rite of purification.

Jesus Closes The Temple:

 
The story of Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers in the Temple is related. Jesus goes to Jerusalem for the Passover.  He enters the Temple courts and sees people selling livestock and exchanging money. He explodes:  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!” (15-16)  He is asked to perform a "miraculous sign" to prove he has authority to do what he is doing.   He says "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days". The people believe he is talking about the official Temple building, but John says that Jesus meant his body, and that this is what his disciples came to believe after his resurrection. John then says that during the Passover Feast Jesus performed miraculous signs, but does not list them, that caused people to believe in him, but that he would "not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men". Maybe  John included this statement to show that Jesus knows the hearts and minds of his people, an attribute that God possesses as well. John mentions the incident with the money changers as occurring at the start of Jesus's ministry, while the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) have it occurring shortly before his crucifixion.  Maybe John included this story at the  beginning to show that Jesus' arrest was for the raising of Lazarus in John 11, not the incident in the Temple