John 2:1-12 tells us about Jesus’s first miracle of turning water into wine. Recently, I heard a commentary about this passage that I have not learned in the past. Symbolism is a large part of Jewish culture as well as their reverence for Moses. Moses’s first public miracle was turning water into blood. Blood symbolizes death. Jesus’s first public miracle was turning water into wine which symbolizes life. Moses was the law giver, while Jesus is the life giver and law fulfiller. This was God announcing that the greater Moses has arrived, the fulfilment of the law has arrived, that Life has arrived.

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