John describes the wedding feast at Cana in Galilee and a sign that Jesus performed there as the first sign in the "book of signs". In my memory I had written about it before. But when I looked up now, I can’t find it. Therefore I’m writing.

What happens in Cana: During the wedding feast, the wine runs out. (The hosts are at a loss.) Jesus enters the picture at the prayer of his mother. There are six large stone jars there. Jesus tells the attendants to fill them with water. They fill them to the brim. Then he tells them to draw some out and take it to the chief steward. They do so. Tasting it he is surprised that they kept the best wine for the end.

The Jewish people were a choice vine, God had specially chosen and planted.

In those days wine was not stored in stone jars, but in wineskins. The stone jars were those keeping “water for the purification of Jews” That is, water was placed for washing of hands and feet before entering the wedding hall/house. Naturally, their place is outside the wedding hall. Wine on the contrary is kept in the store room. All the 'wine' of holiness that people made out of the 'extraordinary' and preserved in the store room has been run out. Now from the realm of ordinaryness outside the tent; from the ordinaryness of the water in the well - the Christ must bring out the extraordinary: the divinity, the abundance of grace, the abundance of joy.

Bridegroom is the one who must provide the wine. That is the reason why when his mother says, "They have no wine," the son says, "My time has not yet come." The son is referring to the 'kairos' - the designated moment of his wedding. The real bridegroom stands hidden now. Let the storages of wine the humanity has produced run dry. The wedding day will come. The bridegroom will provide it in abundance.

Here's the sign.