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Today part one of John chapters 2 through 4, our focus will be on the water turn to wind.

Yeah, so as we jump into chapter 2, you see the timestamp that John gives you.

And keep in mind, we've been spending a lot of time so far this year in Matthew, Mark, and Luke,

the synoptic gospel writers. And so now we get this opportunity at the beginning of Jesus'

ministry to come over and get John's perspective. And it's very unique. You see that he begins

here with his telling of the first recorded miracle in John's gospel,

being this miracle of water to wine at a marriage feast. And there's some beautiful symbolism

in there for John, who is trying to convince us that Jesus is the Christ, but he's doing it using a different

set of symbols than what we normally interact with in the synoptics, Matthew Mark and Luke.

The symbolism of the marriage between the bridegroom and his bride being in a beautiful context, we, you and us,

all of us combined, are the bride preparing ourselves for entering into this covenantal relationship

with Christ. So now you get this outward wedding feast

that's going on as a placeholder or a symbol for the ultimate marriage that Christ is trying

to prepare us for as his bride. So weddings at this time in the ancient world were some of the most joyous occasions.

I mean, if you take all the kinds of festivals and occasions, weddings were probably the most

joyous.

So it's interesting that John, his second chapter, he'd moved to this very joyous occasion

to help us understand the identity of Jesus Christ.

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