The Sign of the Water Turned to Wine<\/p>\n
"Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them, up to the brim" (Joh_2:7).<\/p>\n
I. The Sign of the Water Turned to Wine (Joh_2:1-11)<\/p>\n
In turning the water into wine, there are four significant facts.<\/p>\n
1. The preliminary events.<\/p>\n
(1) John the Baptist had been preaching in the wilderness, bearing record of Jesus Christ. He had said:<\/p>\n
"This is He of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for He was before me" (see Joh_1:30).<\/p>\n
This record designated Jesus as the Christ.<\/p>\n
(2) Philip found Nathanael and said unto him:<\/p>\n
"We have found Him, of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph" (Joh_1:45).<\/p>\n
And Nathanael said unto Philip:<\/p>\n
"Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" (Joh_1:46).<\/p>\n
Philip accepted Christ as the Messiah, but he spake of Him as the "Son of Joseph." Nathanael at first doubted, but afterward cried: "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel" (Joh_1:49).<\/p>\n
2. Pots without wine. The 2nd chapter of John presents the first sign. It proves John's record, and Nathanael's testimony to be true.<\/p>\n
There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. She found that there was no wine, and she spoke to Christ about it.<\/p>\n
The Lord replied:<\/p>\n
"Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come" (Joh_2:4).<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the mother of Christ said unto the servants:<\/p>\n
"Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it" (Joh_2:5).<\/p>\n
In the house there were six empty waterpots, holding about nine gallons each.<\/p>\n
Wine symbolizes joy, and vigorous life. Water-pots stand for form. These waterpots had no wine. In this they pictured Judaism with its cold, empty formalism and its lifeless ceremonials.<\/p>\n
3. Creating the wine. The Lord said:<\/p>\n
"Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim" (Joh_2:7). When they were brought unto the governor of the feast, and he had tasted the water that was made wine, he called the bridegroom and said unto him:<\/p>\n
"Thou hast kept the good wine until now" (Joh_2:10).<\/p>\n
"This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory" (Joh_2:11).<\/p>\n
This first miracle was a sign of how the Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, can supplant the hollowness of the Jew's religion, or of any other "religion," with a life of vital joy and praise.<\/p>\n
The aftermath of this miracle is most suggestive.<\/p>\n
Immediately, Jesus went up to Jerusalem, drove out the money changers, overthrew their tables, and said: "Make not My Father's House, a house of merchandise" (Joh_2:16).<\/p>\n
Thus will the Lord Jesus some day rebuke apostate Israel; but Israel's waterpots shall yet be filled with wine and Christ will be glorified.<\/p>\n
4. Setting forth His death. In the creating and pouring forth of this wine, our Lord Jesus prefigured His death; for the new life of His people must come from the death of the Son.<\/p>\n
In Joh_13:18, following the story of the miracle in Cana, the Jews said unto Christ:<\/p>\n
"What sign shewest Thou unto us, seeing that Thou doest these things?" (Joh_13:18).<\/p>\n
The Lord told them: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (Joh_13:19).<\/p>\n
The sign in Cana of Galilee, and the sign designated in the destroying of the temple, are analogous, for Christ spake of the temple of His body.<\/p>\n
Wine is made from grapes that have been in the winepress. The Lord prefigured His death in the "upper room" when He said:<\/p>\n
"This is My Blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Mat_26:28, \\1911 Bible).<\/p>\n
If the wine in the cup, in the upper room, was a testimony of His Blood–so also was the wine in the pots at the marriage in Galilee.<\/p>\n
This is the inner meaning of the words which Christ spoke to His mother, at Cana: "Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come" (Joh_2:4).<\/p>\n
The new life and the new joy which the wine symbolized are accomplished and made real through the Blood of the Cross.<\/p>\n
The "sign," completed, causes us to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, who through death brought life and light to a nation who had a religion without knowing the power thereof.<\/p>\n
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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