John 2:2

New Life Version

Jesus and His followers were asked to come to the wedding.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

King James Version (1611)
And both Iesus was called, and his disciples, to the mariage.

King James Version
And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

English Standard Version
Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

New American Standard Bible
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

New Century Version
and Jesus and his followers were also invited to the wedding.

Amplified Bible
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

Legacy Standard Bible
and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

Berean Standard Bible
and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited and were there.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua too was invited to the wedding, along with his talmidim.

Darby Translation
And Jesus also, and his disciples, were invited to the marriage.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus and his followers were also invited.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iesus was called also, and his disciples vnto the mariage.

George Lamsa Translation
And Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the marriage feast.

Good News Translation
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Lexham English Bible
And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding.

Literal Translation
And Jesus and His disciples also were invited to the marriage.

American Standard Version
and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Bible in Basic English
And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua also was invited, with his talmidim, to the marriage.

International Standard Version
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

Etheridge Translation
and Jeshu and his disciples were called to the feast.

Murdock Translation
And also Jesus and his disciples were invited to the feast.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iesus was called, and his disciples vnto the mariage.

English Revised Version
and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.

World English Bible
Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the marriage.

Weymouth's New Testament
and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus was clepid, and hise disciplis, to the weddyngis.

Update Bible Version
and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Webster's Bible Translation
And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

New English Translation
and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

New King James Version
Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

New Living Translation
and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration.

New Revised Standard
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, unto the marriage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus was called also and his disciples vnto the mariage.

Young's Literal Translation
and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus also and his disciples was called vnto ye mariage.

Mace New Testament (1729)
as likewise Jesus and his disciples, who were all invited to the feast.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus's twelve cowboys were also invited to the party.

Contextual Overview

¹ Three days later there was a wedding in the town of Cana in the country of Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there. ² Jesus and His followers were asked to come to the wedding. ³ When the wine was all gone, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no more wine." ⁴ Jesus said to her, "Woman, what is that to you and to Me. It is not time for Me to work yet." ⁵ His mother said to the helpers, "Do whatever He says." ⁶ Six stone water jars were there. Each one held about one-half barrel of water. These water jars were used in the Jewish worship of washing. ⁷ Jesus said to the helpers, "Fill the jars with water." They filled them to the top. ⁸ Then He said, "Take some out and give it to the head man who is caring for the people." They took some to him. ⁹ The head man tasted the water that had become wine. He did not know where it came from but the helpers who took it to him knew. He called the man who had just been married. ¹⁰ The head man said to him, "Everyone puts out his best wine first. After people have had much to drink, he puts out the wine that is not so good. You have kept the good wine until now!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

both: Matthew 12:19, Luke 7:34-38, 1 Corinthians 7:39, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:17, Revelation 3:20, his: Matthew 10:40-42, Matthew 25:40, Matthew 25:45

the marriage: Hebrews 13:4

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:10 - General Psalms 116:4 - called Matthew 7:8 - General Matthew 11:19 - came Luke 8:24 - Master

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
God saw all that He had made and it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:8
The Lord God planted a garden to the east in Eden. He put the man there whom He had made.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon. It flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Exodus 23:12
You will work six days and rest on the seventh day. So your bull and your donkey may rest. And the son of your female servant, and the stranger, may get their strength again.

Exodus 31:17
It is something special between Me and the people of Israel forever. For the Lord made heaven and earth in six days. But He stopped working and rested on the seventh day."

Deuteronomy 5:14
But the seventh day is a Day of Rest to the Lord your God. You, your son, your daughter, your man servant, your woman servant, your bull, donkey or any of your cattle, or the traveler who stays with you, must not do any work on this day. So your man servant and woman servant may rest as well as you.

Isaiah 58:13
"If you keep from doing what pleases you on the Day of Rest, on My holy day and call the Day of Rest a happy time, and respect the holy day of the Lord, and if you honor it by turning from your own ways, and from following your own desire and by not talking in a foolish way,

John 5:17
Jesus said to them, "My Father is still working all the time so I am working also."

Hebrews 4:4
In the Holy Writings He said this about the seventh day when He made the whole world, "God rested on the seventh day from all He had made."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And both Jesus was called,.... Or invited, as being a relation, according to the flesh:

and his disciples, to the marriage; who were bidden, on his account; and they seem to be these, Andrew, and the other disciple, that followed Jesus, and Simon Peter, and Philip, and Nathanael, who was of this place; and accordingly they all went to it. Christ, and his five disciples, made six of the ten, which were always necessary to be present at, the benediction of bridegrooms: for so runs the canon m;

"they do not bless the blessing of bridegrooms, but with ten principal and free men; and the bridegroom may be one of the number.''

To attend a wedding, was reckoned, with the Jews, an act of beneficence and kindness n. Our Lord, being at this wedding, was acting like himself, and his general character, of being free, affable, and courteous; who accepted of every invitation, and refused not to be at any entertainment, made by who it would, or on whatever occasion: and particularly in this instance, it shows his humility in not disdaining his poor relations, but giving them his company at such a time; as also it was bearing a testimony to the institution of marriage, as honourable; and teaches us to rejoice with them that rejoice: and as this was, at the first of Christ's ministry and miracles, it is likely it might give the occasion of that calumny cast on him in Matthew 11:19. The disciples of Christ followed the example of their master. According to the Jewish cations o, a disciple of a wise man might not partake of any feast, but what was according to the commandment, as the feast of espousals, and of marriage; and such a feast was this, which Christ and his disciples were at; and so not to be condemned for it, according to their own maxims.

m Maimon. Hilch. Ishot, c. 10. sect. 5. Pirke Eliezer, c. 19. Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 9. 3. n Maimon in Misn. Peah, c. 1. sect. 1. o T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 49. 1. & Maimon. Hilchot Deyot, c. 5. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His disciples - Those that he had made when in Judea. These were Peter, Andrew, Philip, and Nathanael. They were not yet called to be apostles, but they believed that he was the Messiah. The miracle performed here was doubtless to convince them more fully that he was the Christ.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 2:2. And both Jesus was called, and his disciples — There are several remarkable circumstances here.

1. This was probably the first Christian wedding that was ever in the world.

2. The great Author of the Christian religion, with his disciples, (probably then only four or five in number, see John 1:37, c.,) were invited to it.

3. The first miracle Jesus Christ wrought was at it, and in honour of it.

4. The mother of Christ, the most pure of all virgins, the most holy of all wives, and the first Christian mother, was also at it.

5. The marriage was according to God, or these holy persons would not have attended it.

6. The bride and bridegroom must have been a holy pair, otherwise they would have had nothing to do with such holy company.

Marriage is ever honourable in itself but it is not at all times used honourably. Where Jesus is not invited to bless the union, no good can be expected; and where the disciples of sin and Satan are preferred to the disciples of Christ, on such occasions, it is a melancholy intimation that so bad a beginning will have a bad ending. I am afraid we may search long, before we find a marriage conducted on such principles as this appears to have been, even among those who make more than a common profession of the religion of Christ.