The wedding business today is huge! But if we think we’ve cornered the market on weddings today, we’re wrong. In John 2, the Jews knew how to throw a wedding! This chapter is full of significance.

Jewish weddings during the time of Christ were gala occasions even among villages like Cana in Galilee. They were week-long festivals with the entire village invited. Hospitality was abundant and wine was essential. The Rabbis used to say, “Without wine, there is no joy.” To run out of wine at a Jewish wedding was a terrible embarrassment and humiliation. In today’s lingo, it would be a catering disaster!

An easy way to understand John 2 is to think of the wedding phrase of something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

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