Jesus, as a 12-year-old boy, is reunited with Joseph and Mary, His earthly parents, in Jerusalem after a 3-day separation following the Passover festival. Joseph says, “It was incredible, Mary. You should have seen when I found him [in the Temple] teaching them—the rabbis, the scholars. They could not believe their ears! They barely let us leave.” The boy Jesus says, “Didn’t you know I must be in My Father’s House?” Mary says to Him, “Just help us get through all of this with You, huh?”
Nicodemus officially interrogates the newly imprisoned John the Baptizer, but confesses to him: “I am searching for an explanation for something I cannot unsee.” He tells John about Mary Magdalene’s miraculous healing by an as-yet unnamed man seeking no credit. John exclaims, “It has begun! If He is healing in secret, the public signs cannot be far off. Nicodemus asks His name (which Mary did not know when Nicodemus spoke to her after she was restored).
John answers with Scripture: “‘Who has ascended into heaven and come back down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?’ Teacher of Israel, finish it! Finish the oracle of Agur, son of Jakeh” (in Proverbs 30). Nicodemus correctly answers, “What is His name, and what is the name of His Son?”
Nicodemus recoils in horror, saying sternly, “You are careless with Torah! God does not have a Son, except Israel.”
John the Baptist says these concluding words to Nicodemus: “All your life you’ve been asleep. ‘Make straight the way for the King’: He is here, to awaken the earth, but some will not want to be awakened. They’re in love with the dark. I wonder which one you will be.”
When Simon tells his wife, Eden, about what Jesus did for them and that Jesus has asked Simon to follow Him, which will require him being away from home often, she reassures him, saying: “Why would I be upset?... How could I feel abandoned? I feel saved! When have we ever had anything easy? That’s not our people’s way.”
Simon says to Andrew, on their way with Jesus and other disciples to the wedding of Jesus’s childhood friend in Cana: “I don’t want to let Him down. Andrew responds, “I don’t want to do it wrong.”
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| Jesus has fun with children and their parents at the wedding. |
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| Jesus's disciples get to know one another better at the wedding. |
Jesus says to Thomas, the caterer at the wedding, who is distraught over what to do about not bringing enough wine: “It’s good to ask questions, to seek understanding. Join Me and I will show you a different way to count and measure; a different way of seeing time.” Jesus then turned water into fine table wine as a blessing to everyone present. We are told in the Gospel of John that this was the first of His public signs. Jesus's life would never be the same after taking this monumental step. That fact is highlighted in this episode as we see Jesus, alone with the water purification jars and telling the Father He is ready to begin His public ministry, interspersed with wedding table conversation involving the disciple Thaddaeus, a stone mason until called by Jesus to follow Him. Thad explains to his fellow disciples that masonry isn't harder than blacksmith work: "It's just more final. If the smith wants to change the plowshare or the pot hook, he has only to put the iron back into the fire and reshape it to fit his designs. Once you make that first cut into the stone, it can't be undone. It sets in motion a series of choices. What used to be a shapeless block of limestone or granite begins its long journey of transformation, and it will never be the same." Jesus took that journey, and the world has never been the same by the grace of God.
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