Read Today's Passage
Jesus shows up at a wedding... keeps the party going! There are a lot of things about first-century Jewish wedding practices that we here in the 21st century do not know about, but really should look into to understand the background behind our text better. (Just for your benefit, check out here, here, or read the first couple of chapters from Rob Bell's SexGod sometime). And we need to know that the wine that Jesus created was not grape juice (how would they keep it from fermenting without refrigeration?) What does this tell us about Jesus? That He approves of and blesses this marriage (and marriage as an institution) and that He is obedient to His mother (as all of us should be). It also shows us that this was His very first public miracle. Pretty interesting, eh?
The rest of the chapter gives us even more insight into Jesus' clearing of the Temple (He made a whip and used it to scare the thieves out. Didn't see that coming, eh?) and fast-forwards into the disciple's reactions to His prophecy about tearing down the Temple and raising it back up. I wonder how many times in our lives God tells us something and we do not understand it until far down the road?
So what did you think?
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