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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 garb 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.

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