John 2:1-12. FIRST MIRACLE, WATER MADE WINE--BRIEF VISIT TO CAPERNAUM. By J.F.B
1. third day--He would take two days to reach Galilee, and this was the third. mother there--it being probably some relative's marriage. John never names her.
3. no wine--evidently expecting some display of His glory, and hinting that now was His time.
4, 5. Woman--no term of disrespect in the language of that day ( John 19:26 ).
John 19:26
When Jesus, therefore, saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!”
what. . . to do with thee--that is, "In my Father's business I have to do with Him only." It was a gentle rebuke for officious interference, entering a region from which all creatures were excluded (compare Act 4:19, 20 ).
But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge 20. “For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
mine hour, &c.--hinting that He would do something, but at His own time; and so, she understood it ( John 2:5 ).
6. firkins--about seven and a half gallons in Jewish, or nine in Attic measure; each of these huge water jars, therefore, holding some twenty or more gallons, for washings at such feasts ( Mar 7:4 ).
Mar.7:4- And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables
7, 8. Fill. . . draw. . . bear--directing all, but Himself touching nothing, to prevent all appearance of collusion.
9, 10. well drunk--"drunk abundantly" (as Sgs 5:1 ), speaking of the general practice.
Sng 5:1 KJV - 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved
10. the good wine. . . until now--thus testifying, while ignorant of the source of supply, not only that it was really wine, but better than any at the feast.
11. manifested forth his glory--Nothing in the least like this is said of the miracles of prophet or apostle, nor could without manifest blasphemy be said of any mere creature. Observe,
(1) At a marriage Christ made His first public appearance in any company, and at a marriage He wrought His first miracle--the noblest sanction that could be given to that God-given institution. (2) As the miracle did not make bad good, but good better, so Christianity only redeems, sanctifies, and ennobles the beneficent but abused institution of marriage; and Christ's whole work only turns the water of earth into the wine of heaven. Thus "this beginning of miracles" exhibited the character and "manifested forth the glory" of His entire Mission. (3) As Christ countenanced our seasons of festivity, so also that greater fulness which befits such; so far was He from encouraging that asceticism which has since been so often put for all religion. (4) The character and authority ascribed by Romanists to the Virgin is directly in the teeth of this and other scriptures.
ME:
1. God instituted the first marriage in Geneses with Adam and Eve.
Gen 2:18
And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Gen 2:22-25
Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
23 And Adam said:
“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
2. He was at the second in Canna doing his first miracle
John 2.
3. Eph.5, makes it clear marriage is a picture of the relationship of the church and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4. And Jesus will be at the marriage supper of the lamb
Revelation 19:9
Rev 19:9 Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
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