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.
1 John 4:9
God Sent Jesus to Us so that We Might Live Through Him
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
Jesus miraculously turned water into wine at Cana...Then He came again to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water wine...And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill...When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and asked Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death...So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”...The official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”...Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”...The man believed the Words that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way....The man knew, if he believed, that Jesus could heal his son...
Many followers of Jesus' believe that His miracles were historical events and that His miraculous works were special part of His life...His miracles attest that God gave Him authority to do Divine Work and signs...And we still can see Jesus the dual natures of Jesus as God and Man, as we read the gospels...We see Jesus' experiences of hunger, weariness, and death as evidences of His humanity, and His miracles we can see as evidences of Him having a special relationship with God and His Divinity...
Jesus taught His Disciples about the Truth and the Miracles of His Grace...His Disciples heard Him and seen Him and knew that His miracles came from the authority that God had given Him...Jesus also shows us His Divine Power and Grace as He gave His Disciples and Apostles the authority to do miracles...For those who believe in His authority and grace, miracles can happen...
Author Philip Yancey tells the story of one of the miracles of God...Yancey writes: I met my friend Tom, whom I hadn’t seen in fifteen years...Tom was a hard-drinking, lovable partygoer who stopped going to church soon after college...Last year his live-in girlfriend decided she wanted to attend church because of some crisis she was going through...Tom reluctantly agreed...That morning he sat down and started playing his guitar...Thinking of church, he resurrected three hymns from his distant memory...“Those are beautiful—what’s the music?” his girlfriend asked...Tom explained the words to the hymns...They chose a church out of the phone book, and to Tom’s utter astonishment, that Sunday the congregation sang all three of those hymns...It so rattled Tom that he completely turned his life around...Listening to him tell the story, I couldn’t help laughing in surprised joy...I have a memory of Tom so drunk that he fell over while trying to roll a ball down a bowling alley; we had to pull him away from the ball return channel...And now here he was, weeping, telling me how God had changed his life...Think of the “coincidence” of those three hymns being played the one Sunday that Tom dropped in to church...Was that a miracle?...It was certainly grace...