The first of many miracles Jesus performed is a surprising one. Even still—I think we sometimes misunderstand it. Read it below, and allow me to explain.
Six stoneware water pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held approximately twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus ordered the servants, “Fill the pots with water.” And they filled them to the brim.
“Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host,” Jesus said, and they did.
When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn’t know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom, “Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings out the cheap stuff. But you’ve saved the best till now!” – John 2, The Message.
Some of us might have wondered what the point of this miracle is. Drinking too much wine is clearly not a biblical principle.
What if the message underlying this miracle, is that we should sometimes trade in rituals (the pots were used for ritual washings) for some authentic community? Could it be that Jesus wants us to realize that spending time with friends, relatives, and strangers, even partying and having a good time with them, is more important than our rituals, the very rituals that we sometimes use to point an accusing finger to these people?
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it has nothing to do with what you said but rather
if GOD made flesh can turn water into wine, then what is to stop him from turning bread into his flesh and wine into his blood GOD is Unimportant HE can do what ever HE wants when ever HE wants why is it that MAN puts limits on GOD who has no limits?
people that say the bread and wine are not real flesh and blood put stumbling blocks before them