April 11th: Numbers 29-30, Proverbs 21 and John 2-3

Let's think about this first miracle.  It's sometimes said that Jesus made grape juice instead of wine.  I think that's amusing.  Here's why...  The master of the ceremony, the head caterer of sorts, rolls over to Jesus and says, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now."  The dude knew wine.  He was probably some sort of AD 30 sommelier. He knows how much it costs, how much to serve and what people are going to like.  And he calls it "good" wine.  My guess is that he's not even saying this so much out of shock as much as in horror.

He knows the chemistry of it all. The more you drink the less you taste.  Alcohol numbs your tongue.  It's the way it works.  Grape juice? Not so much.  And that's a lot of grape juice.  This is a wedding not a bar mitzva. And BTW, why do people argue this?  The point is that he saved some groom some serious embarrassment.  That's probably the real miracle here.