Why did Jesus turn water into wine?

In John 2:1-11 Christ shows his disciples he is the true vine, in John 15 he tells his disciples he is the true vine and his father is the husbandman and we are the fruit.
It's true Jesus didn't perform miracles willy nilly so why did he change water into wine at the wedding? One of the clues is the jars themselves these stone jars were never used for drinking water they were used for common water you might say gray water in today's language. Christ could have took their drinking water from clay jars and converted it into wine, why did Christ turn this drinking water into common water first? It was to show a greater truth, he is the vine. What does a vine do? It takes earthly water and converts it into grapes, or grape juice. This was to show his disciples that he was the true vine that came from God. Jesus did not perform this miracle to make these people happy at the wedding but to show at a wedding ceremony that he was the true vine. The groom at this wedding was giving praise for providing excellent wine that's because the groom is responsible for providing the wine. Christ provide the wine because he is the groom for us we are the bride. He is able to produce wine out of common/dirty water. The question now is, will we let him turn us/dirty earthy water into heavenly wine? In heaven, Christ will be given praise at the wedding fest for providing us/heavenly wine, by his heavenly father. This miracle is a type/copy of Christ/antitype being the groom at the marriage supper in heaven.



In Ephesians 5:25-28 Husbands,love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it( Her, His Bride) that he might sanctify and cleanse it (His bride) with the washing of water by his word, that he might present it (Her) to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it (she) should be holy and without blemish.

This is a picture of the mikveh that washes the sins off the bride. Jesus takes these sins and through him, the vine, transforms our sinfulness into a holy fruit/drink.

JDMiowa said:

In John 2:1-11 Christ shows his disciples he is the true vine, in John 15 he tells his disciples he is the true vine and his father is the husbandman and we are the fruit.
It's true Jesus didn't perform miracles willy nilly so why did he change water into wine at the wedding? One of the clues is the jars themselves these stone jars were never used for drinking water they were used for common water you might say gray water in today's language. Christ could have took their drinking water from clay jars and converted it into wine, why did Christ turn this drinking water into common water first? It was to show a greater truth, he is the vine. What does a vine do? It takes earthly water and converts it into grapes, or grape juice. This was to show his disciples that he was the true vine that came from God. Jesus did not perform this miracle to make these people happy at the wedding but to show at a wedding ceremony that he was the true vine. The groom at this wedding was giving praise for providing excellent wine that's because the groom is responsible for providing the wine. Christ provide the wine because he is the groom for us we are the bride. He is able to produce wine out of common/dirty water. The question now is, will we let him turn us/dirty earthy water into heavenly wine? In heaven, Christ will be given praise at the wedding fest for providing us/heavenly wine, by his heavenly father. This miracle is a type/copy of Christ/antitype being the groom at the marriage supper in heaven.

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Mikveh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Mikveh - My Jewish Learning

Mikveh | Jewish Virtual Library

At," The Mikveh - My Jewish Learning " I found this explanation.

"Since the mikveh at Masada was far from any natural spring, it presumably functioned as a cistern for rain, and the Masada residents immersed therein. Though stagnant rainwater could hardly have been hygienic, this mikveh would still have met the legal requirements to purify; in Judaism, ritual purity and hygiene can be two very different categories."



"Jewish law requires that one immerse in a mikveh as part of the process of conversion to Judaism, and also that women immerse before getting married and when keeping the laws of niddah (menstrual purity). There are also various non-halakhic reasons that both men and women visit the mikveh."

Gray water is a good name for this water. They did not replace it with clean water for each person. This is not for drinking. It only symbolically removes uncleanness. This water is truly unclean, and unfit to drink. The wedding group never would have drank this had they known where it came from.

This water is symbolically filled with sin. Jesus showed his disciples he can transform this sin filled water into heavenly wine. Only the vine of God can accomplish this.

davidbrainerd said:

I don't see the connection between a mikveh and wine. Sorry, but Epic fail.

The most significant thing I can say about the wedding at Cana story is that it was left out of the earliest harmony of the gospels, the original Diatessaron. Its been said by the 'orthodox' that Tatian left it out because he was a teatotaler. But it could just as likely be that the 'orthodox' added it or drunks.

Or, the whole story can be described as an allegory, the point of which is in the words of the governor of the feast:

"Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now"

That is, the New Testament is the better wine than the Old Testament, and was saved for last.

Connect that with Luke's comment "nobody have drunk the old wine immediately desires the new, for he says, the old is better." But if the old wine runs out, as in the story of Cana, then they are forced to try the new wine. And then they may find that it is better.

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Don't be sorry, just because you don't see the connection don't mean its an,"Epic fail".
In the book of John, John makes a point to reveal who Christ is through all his miracles. This miracle has nothing to do with ,"teatotalers or drunks". This miracle is about turning the sinful into the holy through Christ.