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Now today we are studying John Chapter 2 through John Chapter 4

beginning with a wonderful wedding at Cana.

So let us set the scene for what a Hebrew wedding would look like.

At a Hebrew wedding, late in the evening, the bridegroom would set forth from his house attended

by friends and singers to get the bride and bring her home for a feast.

The guests were given fitting robes and the feast was filled with riddles and amusements.

Jesus was in attendance at such a wedding in Cana, which is in Galilee, when his mother, Mary,

apparently having some responsibility for the festivities, came to him because they had run out of wine. Now John the Baptist, he is fasting

and garbed in camel hair, he's living an ascetic life, he's apart from the world

but Jesus came among the people associating with others in social friendship, a trait for which

he would later be criticized.

Now when Mary told him that there was a wine shortage, the traditional text in John two and four says that he answered

woman what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. That seems like a

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