“Don’t Overlook the Miracle…”


BIBLE READING: John 2
DISCUSSION                                      
                As Jesus completes this first miracle at the wedding feast at Cana of Galilee, there is something interesting about the miracle that the text doesn’t reveal.  When Jesus changes the water into wine, it says that the wine came from six stone water jars that were there for the Jewish rites of purification.  Under normal conditions we read that wine was usually transported in wine skins and not jars, plus their jars are not just any jars; they were only used for water for the purpose of ceremonial cleansing.   If Jesus would have had the men fill up the wine skins, there would have certainly had some old wine reside in them causing the water to be somewhat wine colored.  Not to mention, it might even have the taste of a very diluted wine, that would have certainly caused some skeptics to doubt.  However, to remove all doubt concerning the miracle, these jars would have never had anything but water in them.  Also, this wasn’t just a little miracle either.  Each water pot was said to contain 20-30 gallons each…that is possibly 120 – 150 gallons of wine; to help me understand, that would equal somewhere between 227-284 two-liter bottles of Grapico!!!  This is no small miracle here. Plus, we mustn’t forget that the wine Jesus made, was the best wine that they had thus far.  So, before you just read over this story, take a few minutes to soak it in just, how powerful of a feat that Jesus had performed.  Remember, never overlook the miracle!

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