The wedding at Cana where Jesus performed His first recorded miracle, i.e. the making of wine from water, was reported in the gospel of John only. This is in John 2:1-12.
Mary, the mother of Jesus, Jesus Himself and His disciples were present. Why was the mother of Jesus present? Was she a guest or related to the person wed? Why was she concerned that there was no more wine? If you were a guest, would you do what she did?
Why is this wedding recorded in John only? Is it because the author of the gospel of John knew the event first hand?
2007-08-13 00:23:33 · 6 answers · asked by Peace Crusader 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The names of the bride and the groom are not given in the story. It is apparent that the groom was not Jesus. He performed the miracles, and created the wine. But when it is taken to be served, it states the groom did not know where it came from. Jesus knew where the wine came from - so he was not the groom.
Both Jesus and his mother were guest at the wedding. Whether it might have been a wedding for one of Jesus' brothers or sister is another possibility, but not stated in scripture.
As for why only John records that miracle, that one is simple. Matthew, Mark and Luke are usually referred to as the synposis gospels (meaning "re-telling") because the share the same strories between them. 92% of Mark is retold in Luke and Matthew. All three of the synopsis gospels appear to have been written within a handful of years of each other.
John was written about 30 years later. He had the first gospels available to him at the time he wrote. Other then the feeding of the 5,000 (to which he attachs a lengthy teaching not found in the other gospels), all the material in John is unique to John. Rather then repeat what the others had already told us, John adds new material noting that "if all the things Jesus said and did were recorded, the whole world could not contain the book". So there were many other things Jesus said and did, and John records some of those for us.
So one of John's purpose was to record stories not told by the other three gospels. The wedding at Cana is one of those stories.
(In in answer to the first posters claim that the NT was not written until "200 years later", what does he do with the 2,300 still existing NT manuscripts from before that time?)
2007-08-13 00:38:01 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may have been a relative (or close friend) of Mary that was getting married.
It was an embarrassment to run short of wine.
Also it could partially be her fault in that she brought Jesus and His disciples along also, and these extra people depleted the wine.
John wanted to point out that this was Jesus' first miracle.
In the Apocrypha books it says that Jesus did miracles of turning clay birds into real ones and some other miracles. But here John points out that THIS was the FIRST miracle.
2007-08-13 00:48:07 · answer #2 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-12 04:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The focus of the gospel is on Jesus. What he did is more important than who got wedded.
Nuch
2007-08-13 00:53:46 · answer #4 · answered by Nuch the Wise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Non of the writers of the bible lived during that time. First writing of biblical text started more than 200 years later.
2007-08-13 00:29:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lebanese,cana is within lebanon of today
2007-08-18 17:41:16 · answer #6 · answered by jammal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋