John 2:10

8/12/2023

John 2:10
Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine;
and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse:
but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

Jesus, your first miracle didn't set you on the path to Calvary, but in that moment your disciples and family must have begun to understand your nature, your gospel, and your path. Telling Mary, "what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come," says so much in so few words - your mother-son relationship, now transformed, and pointing the way to the cup of blessing at the last supper and the fourth undrunk cup, the cup of praise. You are the good wine, the cup yet to come, and I know not how you are able to say so much with so few words.