The Miracle at the Wedding of Cana (John 2:1-11)
Jesus did His first miracle of changing water into wine to manifest His glory so that His disciples believed in him. (John 2:11) The wedding took place on the third day and Jesus and his mother as well as his disciples were present. The wine ran out and Mary, Jesus’ mother, said to Jesus, “They have no more wine.”
Jesus refused to be involved with it saying, “My hour has not yet come.” Mary said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” They took six stone water jars, used for ceremonial washing, filled it with water to the brim and drew some out to take to the master of the banquet. When the master of the banquet tasted the wine, he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
Jesus’ purpose in dying for us was to give us the new wine, the costly wine, that has been reserved for the last days. His time had not yet come indicates Jesus had not yet been crucified. He could only offer the best (and costliest) wine after His death. So He refused to be involved out of His time.
– Holy Spirit
Mary knew that the infilling of all people with the new wine had to be the first miracle—so she presses into it. The Lord gets the message and asks the servants (the workers of the Kingdom) to fill six stone jars. Six denotes ‘man’ and stone jars (empty) indicate ‘stony hearts devoid of the Spirit’. Jesus asks for them to be filled with the water of the Word. When the servants drew the water out indicates that the water had remained long enough to start working on their hearts. Their stony hearts were replaced by hearts of flesh as the people waited and walked long enough in the Word. The Word had become so fermented in their hearts now made into flesh that the contents that came out were filled with the Holy Spirit.
– Holy Spirit
Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Jeremiah 24:7 ESV
I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Acts 2:17: In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
The miraculous power of God to manifest His glory in the last days would greatly exceed what was done before Jesus’ sacrifice. The best wine has been reserved for the end and we who are called to administer the wine are being called to make the Kingdom attractive to all so that they will be drawn in large numbers and seek to partake of the Kingdom. This is the wedding feast of the Lamb when all shall partake of the feast of God’s Word and have an abundance of His Spirit. They shall belong to the everlasting kingdom forever and ever! Amen.
Additional Scriptures
Luke 22:20 ESV
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.”
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Hebrews 10:22 ESV
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 17:10
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Acts 16:14
One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
John 6:44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
Genesis 27:28
Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,
And of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine;
Mark 15:23
They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.
Psalm 75:8
For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed, and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.
Joel 3:18
And in that day
The mountains will drip with sweet wine,
And the hills will flow with milk,
And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water;
And a spring will go out from the house of the Lord
To water the valley of Shittim.
Jeremiah 25:15
For thus the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord,
Intoxicating all the earth.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
Therefore the nations are going mad.
Luke 22:20
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.”
Judges 9:12-13
Then the trees said to the vine, ‘You come, reign over us!’ But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my new wine, which cheers God and men, and go to wave over the trees?’
Acts 2:1-21
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.
Eph 5:18 Berean Study Bible
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
Mark 2:22
No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”