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The wedding at
Cana, when St John's gospel reports the first miracle. When
Mary tells Jesus that they have run out of wine, he seems to
refuse help. Then she bids the servants to go to him and do
what he says. The six stone water jars are to be filled, then
drawn and offered to the steward of the feast. He tasted and
said "You have kept the best wine till the last". |
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Two days afterwards,
there was a wedding feast at Cana, in Galilee; and Jesus' mother
was there. Jesus himself, and his disciples, had also been invited
to the wedding. Here the supply of wind failed; whereupon Jesus'
mother said to him, They have no wine left. Jesus answered her,
Nay, woman, why dost thou trouble me with that? My time has
not come yet. And his mother said to the servants, Do whatever
he tells you. There were six waterpots standing there, as the
Jewish custom of a ceremonial washing demanded; they were of
stone, and held two or three firkins apiece. And when Jesus
said, Fill the waterpots with water, they filled these up to
the brim. Then he said to them, Now draw, and give a draught
to the master of the feast. So they gave it to him, and the
master of the feast tasted this water, which had now been turned
into wine. He did not know whence it came; only the servants
who had drawn the water knew that. He master of the feast, then,
called to the bridegroom, and said to him, It is ever good wine
that men set out first, and the worse kind only when all have
drunk deep; thou hast kept the good wine till now. So in Cana
of Galilee Jesus began his miracles and made known the glory
that was his, so that his disciples learned to believe in him. |
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