John 2:1-11
Jesus Turns Water into Wine
1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
A young and relatively unknown Man and His Mother were in Cana in Galilee one day...And this Man was also with His Disciples, whom He had just met and ask them to follow Him...They followed Him to a wedding...Many of their friends were there...He and His Mother Mary noticed that the wedding party had run out of wine...There was no more wine at the wedding...Mary, the mother said to her Son, "They have no more wine."...This young Man would perform His first sign...He ask that six stone jars be filled with water...And He made the water blush -and the water turned into wine...
Ravi Zachariah tells the story this way, "“Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed."...That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles...Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker?..Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd?...Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?”...
I have read that the poet Richard Crashaw wrote that when Jesus was at the wedding of Cana, "The conscious water saw its God and blushed."...I have also heard another story about Lord Bryon and the wine and it says something very similar...Jack Kornfield wrote this on his website....A century ago, a young student at the great Oxford University in England was taking an important examination in religious studies...The examination question for this day was to write about the religious and spiritual meaning in the miracle of Christ turning water into wine...For two hours he sat in the crowded classroom while other students filled their pages with long essays, to show their understanding...The exam time was almost over and this one student had not written a single word...The proctor came over to him and insisted that he commit something to paper before turning it in...The young Lord Byron simply picked up his hand and penned the following line: “The water met its Master, and blushed.”...
Instead of a long answer to this essay question Bryon answered, "The water met its Master, and blushed."...
The water had seen its Maker...And when the water saw its Maker, a sudden and elegant change took place...Water without color, without smell, and without taste had suddenly changed itself...The molecules had now changed...The water was no longer water...The water was transformed...The water was now the most delicious of wines, because its Master had transformed it into something new...
Water blushes in the presence of its Maker...The water had looked at its Master and blushed...