BEGINNING OF SIGNS

READ JOHN 2:1-11

1-2) John does not give his readers the event of Jesus' temptation, but skips to the wedding in Cana of Galilee.
3-5) There is a dialogue with Jesus and His mother. Mary was laying the responsibility upon Jesus to refurbish the wine at a wedding that they and the disciples were invited to. Let's put Jesus' response to His mother in todays language, "Dear Mother, what do I have to do with this wedding? It is not my responsibility. My time of taking responsibility for the people of this earth has not yet come." She was laying the responsibility of the provision of satisfying what was lacking. He was to later die on the cross for sinners to satisfy the lack of a Savior. Jesus did not come to satisfy temporarily with earthly things, but to satisfy permanently with spiritual things. She ignores His answer and out of grace and honor and a love toward His mother, He fulfills her request.
6-10) Jesus turns water into wine. What did this show about Jesus Himself?
1) Jesus is God, only God could have done the changing of water to wine instantly.
2) Jesus is the Creator - John 1:3: the water and wine did not come into being without Jesus.
3) Jesus in the New Covenant - the waterpots were used for the custom of purfication, Law, but Jesus is now the New Covenant. See Matt. 26:27-29, the old, under the Law, was good, but the new is better.
11) The sign authenticates who Jesus is. Jesus through this miracle manifested His glory. Stuart Briscoe says in his book The Fullness of Christ, "To have made wine from water was a glorious achievement, but to have made a superlative quality of wine, as the manager of the feast said He did, was to demonstrate a superlative abundance and fullness of glory. He was full of glory." Jesus is the glory that has come into the world, go back to John 1:14,16, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth...For of His fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace."
WE RECEIVE FROM JESUS GRACE UPON GRACE, BLESSING UPON BLESSING, LOVE UPON LOVE. JESUS IS FAR SUPERIOR AS THE NEW AND BETTER COVENANT!