On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
Comment: Alcohol, drugs etc need to be thought about and decisions made. There is no evidence that the Bible is against drinking alcohol, whereas it is against drunkenness. Alcohol was in some ways apparently used as an anti-germ agent in that period of time but people knew what they were drinking. And at a wedding the host was supposed to keep the supply up. And the story tickles our imagination failing to give us answers that would totally satisfy us but stating emphatically ‘Notice – this Man is to be noted! Why choose booze at a country wedding for such a demonstration? OK, Mary had pre-pregnancy knowledge about her son, he had grown up with her changing his nappy, presumably with her teaching him table manners, but how did she know that he could act as a vintner? It seems as if it scored high on the taste gauge! And caused a few people to think deeply,
Prayer: Help me to be honest in my assessment of You, Lord Jesus. I feel that You are much more important than my thoughts about You. It’s as if I’m being assessed by You, by what I think!
As I read it! 