How about, "On the third day, there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee ..."?
Several chapters of John don’t make sense if you read them as being chronologically; Some authors have proposed that what exists as a single gospel was once a collection of readings, compiled immediately following John’s death, or, given the closing curse to do those who would add to it, anticipating John’s imminent death.
If you take John 1-2 as chronological, you actually end up with a big problem: John is baptized in the Jordan a few weeks before Passover. March is not an ideal time for taking a dip!
But moreover, John 2:13-21 is as closely paralleled by the synoptic gospels as any passage in all of John. And the synoptics place this event as immediately before his final entrance into Jerusalem.
The marriage at Cana is where Yah'shua changed Marriage as a metaphor of His relationship to His Bride. The "third day" is speaking of the day
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
of double blessing in Genesis 1.
the "Ashes of the Red Heifer" of Numbers 19
(used for healing) to wine ( signifying His blood).