John 2:1-12

What are the lessons in these passages for us? 

God honors parents and so should we. He made it the 4th commandment directly following His passages of how we are to honor Him. 

Jesus’s first miracle was in relation to His mother asking and expecting Him to respond. We can ask in His name and expect answers. 

Mary asked this, not for herself, but for the bride and groom. The prayers of believers is powerful for good. God hears our prayers for others.

Jesus could have came to this earth in any way that God chose. He chose family. Jesus loved his mother. He loved his family. You were born into that family for a purpose. The believer who does not take care of his family…is worse than an unbeliever.

Miracles happen when we believe! 

To God be all the glory.

Wine was an essential part of the diet in the ancient world. Drinking wine symbolized peace and prosperity, but excessive drinking and drunkenness were condemned. The Greek text here literally reads, “what is that to me and you?” Jesus is likely petitioning His mother to consider whether the request is really the type of thing He should be addressing with His power; He probably wants her to consider His purpose. Mary did not take Jesus’ refusal as a firm negative response and clearly did not understand it as a rebuke. She knew Jesus was able to take care of the problem. The signs are designed to reveal Jesus’ identity as the Messiah. John declares that his purpose in writing the Gospel was to promote belief through the story of Jesus and the signs He performed. Faithlife Bible.

The wording of the text, the mother of Jesus was there … Jesus and His disciples were invited, suggests that Jesus and His disciples were invited because of Mary. Her forwardness in asking Jesus to help when the wine ran out may indicate that she was in some way related to the family holding the wedding. Jesus’ response to Mary seems to have been a refusal to do anything about the situation. Yet she seemed to expect Him to do something. Perhaps something in the tone of Jesus’ voice let Mary know that He would grant her request. In the Gospel of John, the miracles of Jesus are called signs, indicating that they pointed to His messiahship. John records seven signs. This sign signified Christ’s glory—that is, His deity. When Jesus transformed water into wine, He demonstrated His power. NKJ Bible.

John 2:1-12

2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”

4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it. 9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 10 And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”

11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.

12 After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.

John 4:46 | So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.