January 23, 2025
Water Into Wine - Part 4
John 2:6-10
01/23/2025
6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the
Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty
or thirty gallons.
7 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.
9 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
10 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. (ESV)
Mary, the mother of Jesus, asked Him to help solve the
problem of running out of wine at a wedding feast.
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.
By commandeering the water jugs, Jesus rendered it almost
impossible impossible, to remain ritually clean under the Old
Testament laws The water in the purification jugs became wine.
Every detail John writes is to prove that Jesus is the Son of
God, therefore he may have included this story to point us to the
wine. After all, on the night Jesus was betrayed, He took a cup
of wine and said, "Take and drink, this is my blood." Later John
wrote in his first Epistle, "The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses
us from all sin."[1] The purification under the Law was part of
the ritual, but did not remove the guilt of sin The cleansing by
the blood of Jesus purifies us from all sin, rendering us holy in
God's sight. Is that the reason Jesus chose these water jars?
May our Lord assure us that we are purified from our sin by
His holy precious blood, that we have life everlasting by God's
grace. Amen.
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1. 1 John 1:7b (ESV)