Episode 321 Water Into Wine (John 2:1-11)

This week BibleWorm reads the story of Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding in Cana in John 2:1-11. We talk about the improvisational nature of Jesus’s first miraculous sign, which he does at the urging of his mother even though it is not yet his time. And we wonder whether we, too, might be improvisational when it comes to fulfilling our own callings. We also ponder the subtlety of Jesus’s first miracle, which almost no one seems to notice, and which the bridegroom ultimately gets credit for, and we wonder what else God might be up to in the world that nobody seems to notice. And we talk about abundant wine as a sign of the arrival of the messianic age and imagine the hospitality of God’s coming kingdom, which has plenty of merriment to go around.