John 2:4

Plain English Version

Jesus said to her, “Why are you asking me to do that? It is not the right time yet for me to show everyone who I am.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

David said to Abishai, and to Abishai’s brother Joab, “Don’t do it. It’s got nothing to do with you 2. Maybe God himself told him, ‘Go and swear at David.’ If God told him to do that, nobody can stop him.” (We have not yet translated 16:11-14.)

Luke 2:49

Jesus said, “Why did you look everywhere for me? I had to be in my father’s special house. You should know that.”

John 12:23

Jesus said to them, “It is nearly time for God to show everyone that his special man from heaven is really powerful.

John 13:1

It was just before the Jewish Passover ceremony, and Jesus and his followers sat down to eat together. Jesus knew that it was nearly time for him to leave this world and go back to his father. While he was in the world, he always showed his followers that he loved them. And he kept on loving them right to the end of his time on earth. Before this time, the devil, the boss over the bad spirits, gave one of Jesus’s followers the idea of turning against Jesus. That follower’s name was Judas. He was the son of a man called Simon Iscariot. Jesus and his followers were sitting at the table,

John 2:3

There was always weak wine to drink at a wedding party, but they used up all that wine. So Jesus’s mother said to him, “They have run out of wine. Can you help them?”

John 20:13

They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” Mary said, “Somebody took my leader’s body away, and I don’t know where they put it.”

John 20:15

Jesus asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?” Mary thought he was the gardener, so she asked him, “Sir, did you take his body away? If you did, please show me where you put it, so that I can get it and take care of it.”

John 7:30

Some of the people wanted to grab Jesus straight away, and take him to court, so the judge might say he has to die. But it wasn’t the right time yet for Jesus to die, so God stopped them, and they didn’t touch him.

John 7:6

Jesus said, “It’s not yet the right time for me to go to Jerusalem. But you can go any time.

John 7:8

You can go to the ceremony, but I’m not going now. It’s not yet the right time for me to go to Jerusalem.”

John 8:20

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in God’s ceremony house, near the money box. The people used to put money into that box to give it to God. The Pharisee mob wanted to grab him and kill him, but it was not the right time yet for him to die, so God stopped them, and nobody touched him.