John 2:5
His
mother
said
to the
servants
“Do
whatever
he
tells
you.
The Gospel reading today at church is John 2:1-11, This is the third showing forth/manifestation of Christ: to the magi at the Epiphany, his Baptism on the first Sunday after Epiphany and now his changing of of Prodigious amount of water into wine at the wedding in Cana. The following was part of the commentary on that recently in God Pause, a daily Lutheran offering. I liked it because Jesus’ response in verse 4 to her saying that they had run out of wine at the wedding (“SO?” ...my paraphrase.) has always puzzled me. I don't think I had ever heard anything that helped make sense of it before so it was an interesting insight for me: not that Mary somehow forces Jesus hand, but that she knew him so well that she knew, even before he did, that he'd do something…. The ever surprising Mary.
tells
you.
The Gospel reading today at church is John 2:1-11, This is the third showing forth/manifestation of Christ: to the magi at the Epiphany, his Baptism on the first Sunday after Epiphany and now his changing of of Prodigious amount of water into wine at the wedding in Cana. The following was part of the commentary on that recently in God Pause, a daily Lutheran offering. I liked it because Jesus’ response in verse 4 to her saying that they had run out of wine at the wedding (“SO?” ...my paraphrase.) has always puzzled me. I don't think I had ever heard anything that helped make sense of it before so it was an interesting insight for me: not that Mary somehow forces Jesus hand, but that she knew him so well that she knew, even before he did, that he'd do something…. The ever surprising Mary.
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Mary tells Jesus that the wine at the wedding party has run out. Jesus seems to ignore her, saying that his hour has not yet come. Yet Mary just knows that Jesus is going to do something, so she tells the servants to be ready to do whatever Jesus says.
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