This, the first sign of his mission, Jesus gave at Cana in Galilee, and by it revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Upon this the Jews asked Jesus: "What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?"

This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.

"What sign, then," they asked, "are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing?

"John gave no sign of his mission," they said; "but everything that he said about this man was true."

This, indeed, was why the crowd met him--because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.