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2 Three days later Mary, the mother of Jesus, was at a wedding feast in the village of Cana in Galilee. 2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited and were there. 3 When the wine was all gone, Mary said to Jesus, “They don't have any more wine.”
The Wedding at Cana. 1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ( A ) 2 Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 [ d ] [And] Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me?
Sep 26, 2023 · In John 2:1-12, we see Jesus (Yeshua) performing his first miracle at a wedding in Cana. The host ran out of wine, and at his mother’s prompting, Jesus asked the servants to fill six water jars with water. When the master of the banquet tasted the water, it had been turned into the finest wine.
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Weddings have been part of Jewish and other cultures for millennia, both to celebrate and to make official the marriage relationship. While the intimate relations between a man and a woman can be found as early as the story of Adam and Eve, the origin of the wedding as a celebratory event cannot easily be pinned down. However, elements of wedding c...
A wedding marks a significant life event. How many remember their Jewish grandmothers saying, “I should only live to see your wedding!” In particular, a Jewish wedding (as opposed to a civil ceremony) is performed by a rabbi and involves a number of traditions, described below, which help affirm not only the marriage relationship but its Jewish con...
Jewish people often speak of looking for their bashert, a Yiddish term meaning destiny, the perfect soulmate, the intended one. Of course, marriage is not easy, not even when one has found one’s bashert. A midrash tells us the following story: The rabbi goes on to explain that God has been busy arranging marriages in heaven! “Feh!” essentially says...
Weddings appear several times in the New Testament, mostly in stories or metaphorically, while marriage itself is mentioned in a number of contexts. First, we get to glimpse an authentic Jewish wedding and Jesus’ first miracle in the Gospel of John: In the first century, a wedding feast lasted for a week, and running out of wine would subject the h...
Jesus uses the wedding as a metaphor for entering God’s kingdom, in which great joy is found in the company of others who participate in what God offers. He also urged his followers to watch and be ready for His coming in the parable of the ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom (see Matthew 25:1–13). The Church (those...
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Fun fact: Virgins were married on the fourth day of the week, Wednesday, and widows on the fifth. Further fun fact: Jesus brusque reply to Mary, literally “what to me and to you”, is the same Semitic expression used by the demons in Mark 1:24, and “Legion” in Luke 8:28.
Nov 17, 2020 · A similar sequence of thought appears at Cana. It is of central importance that Jesus’s first revelation of his divinity takes place at a wedding: as Mary well knows, for her son to provide the wine would place him in the bridegroom’s role.
The gospel narrative tells us that there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee (2:1). Information in the literary context might help readers picture Cana as a Jewish town or village. Details that invite that idea are that the wedding is held where there are water jars for Jewish rites of purification (2:6).
