He was God's Son as well as Mary's, and He had God's work to do, and He
must do it at God's time.

[Illustration: A modern Jew's wedding party in Galilee.]

But when Mary went back, she told the servants to do whatever Jesus
told them. Close to the house there were six great stone jars or
waterpots, and Jesus said to the servants, 'Fill the waterpots with
water. And they filled them up to the brim. And lo! when the water
was taken out of the jars, it was water no longer, but wine.

This was the very first miracle that Jesus did, and He did it to make
people happy, and to make them believe that He was the Son of God.
Dear children, Jesus wants you to be happy. And the best way to be
happy is to ask Jesus to go with you everywhere and always, just as
those wedding people asked Him to come to their party.

He did not stay very many days in Capernaum. The lovely spring flowers
told Him that the Passover time was coming, so He went up with His
disciples, to Jerusalem. When Jesus had come to Jerusalem, you may be
sure that His disciples and He soon went to the Temple, and when they
got inside the great Court of the Gentiles they found a market was
going on there. Men were selling oxen and sheep and doves for
sacrifice. Others were sitting at little tables changing money. And
there must have been plenty of noise, for people in the East shout and
quarrel a great deal when they are buying or selling.

When Jesus saw this, He was angry; and He made a whip with pieces of
cord, and He drove away all the people who were selling in the Temple.
And He turned out the sheep and the oxen; and he told the men who sold