Wedding Feast at Cana (John 2)

[Mintaka]

Nobody knows who the bride and groom at Cana were.

Just to be obnoxious, though, I will say that there are various legends people have come up with. A very common one (which didn’t seem to come up much during the De Vinci Code craze) was that John the Evangelist was the guy getting married, and that his bride was Mary Magdalene, and that John was so impressed by the miracle that he went right off with the disciples and left Mary M sitting around the house lonely, which was why she started catting around with strange men!

Ha! And you thought soap operas and drama miniseries started in our day!

Various known male and female disciples, followers of Jesus, and members of Jesus’ extended family have also been floated.

The ancient folks talking about this text point out, though, that Mary really did have a right to expect something to be done. Jesus was the King, the Messiah, and God, and all three of those were supposed to give food and drink generously to the people at their banquets. Beyond that, it is traditionally a duty of a Jewish wedding guest to try to make the bride and groom happy at their wedding, as well as having fun themselves, and so wedding guests often provide entertainment and happy thoughts as a sort of sub-gift to the bride and groom.

St. Thomas Aquinas saw Mary as having been “there” because she was the one who arranged the marriage! (At least in a spiritual sense of helping all marriages.) It’s a great image, though, isn’t it? Mary doing her bit as a yenta?

But yeah, she was probably just there as one of many guests, except that (like a good Christian) she kept her eyes open for problems and brought them to the Lord’s attention.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

I love knowing that this is Jesus’ first miracle. It is so cool on so many levels. I am wondering, though… who’s wedding was it? Or does nobody know? I think that Mary was probably observant (just like most women) and/or knew the host/hostess who spoke her concerns to her. They were worried about being embarrassed about running out of wine… which would have been quite embarrassing!!

I think in the Jewish wedding they went in and closed the doors. Then the celebration continued until they had to open the doors. [Note the parable of the wise and foolish virgins, Matt 25] If they ran out of wine they would have had to open the doors to get more and that would have cut the party short.

I have seen this miracle related to Luke 2:41-50 {Finding in the Temple]:.

At that time, Mary asked Jesus what He was doing. He explained that He was God and had to get on with His mission. She told Him, “Not today. Today you are a young Jewish boy and need to get home to gather firewood and take out the garbage. I’ll tell You when to get on with Your Mission” So He went home and was obedient to her.

Now He says it is not yet My time. She answers that she has discussed this with His Father, and it is time to get on with it; so He does.

 

[OscarsMama]

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At that time, Mary asked Jesus what He was doing. He explained that He was God and had to get on with His mission. She told Him, “Not today. Today you are a young Jewish boy and need to get home to gather firewood and take out the garbage. I’ll tell You when to get on with Your Mission” So He went home and was obedient to her.

Now He says it is not yet My time. She answers that she has discussed this with His Father, and it is time to get on with it; so He does. *

This is why I love Mary!!!

 

[Muze]

It has been speculated that the family was a friend of Mary’s and she was assisting in the preparation.

By the way, my pastor of many years ago suggested that they were running out because Jesus brought all those young seminarians with Him.

Actually, it was because there was only 1 baptist invited.

There isn’t anything in John 2 about how Mary came to know the wine was gone. She was probably in line for a refill when they ran out… lol