John. Jey J. Kanagaraj

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target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_9b339958-f697-5779-a0c4-d76c1c9821cb">36. Brown 1978: 1.98.

      John 2

      The Beginning of Jesus’ Public Ministry

      Jesus’ Public Ministry (2:1—12:50)

      First sign of Jesus in John (2:1–12)

      Gaining confidence from Jesus’ response, his mother instructed the servants, “You do what he would tell you” (2:5). She acted with an exemplary faith and with determination to supply wine through Jesus. However, his disciples were so passive that they were unable to recognize the need of the time.

      The text does not mention when the water drawn out of jars was turned into wine. We are only told that the master of the feast tasted the “water which had become wine” without knowing where it was from (2:9). The Greek perfect-tense gegenēmenon shows the quality of the water, which perhaps had already become wine before it came to the hands of the master. The water became wine probably when the servants were drawing it from the jars or when they were carrying it. They knew by whom the miracle happened, but not how it happened (2:9). There is a secrecy motif in this first sign of Jesus (2:11a), conveying the truth that the miraculous deeds of Jesus are beyond human comprehension. The focus of the sign, then, is not on how or when the turning of water into wine happened but on why it happened.


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