The Miracles of Jesus
Lesson 2 – Water to Wine
Cana of
Galilee
Jesus
Turns
Water
Into Wine
John 2:1-11
Valley Near Cana of Galilee
Jesus Turns Water Into Wine
Prelude to the miracle (John 2:1-5)
Jesus had called several of His disciples on two
previous days (John 2:1; 1:29, 40-42)
 Mary, Jesus & His disciples are invited to a
wedding feast in Cana.
 Mary informs Jesus, “They have no wine.”
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Note the confidence of Mary in her Son’s ability to help
(John 2:3, 5; cf. Luke 2:19, 51)
Jesus gently rebukes Mary because His hour had not
yet come; His work was on His heavenly Father’s
timetable. (John 7:30; 8:20; 12:23, 27; 13:1; 17:1)
Jesus Turns Water Into Wine
Particulars of the Miracle (John 2:6-10)
 Six water pots of stone (each holding 20 to 30
gallons – a total of approximately 150 gallons)
 The SERVANTS handled the water pots
 FILLED the pots to the brim
 Drew out some and took it to
the Master of the Feast
 The assessment of the Master of the Feast
 He did not know where the wine came from.
 He judged it to be BETTER than the wine set
out at the first of the feast.
Jesus Turns Water Into Wine
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Purpose of the Miracle (John 2:11)
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Jesus manifested His glory.
His DISCIPLES believed.
Applications for us
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Jesus can provide for our needs even when we
have used up all our resources.
Jesus can change something that is
common into something extraordinary!
 He can change people with the
POWER of the Gospel! (Rom. 1:16)
 Like He changed the Corinthians, the
Thessalonians and Saul of Tarsus
Jesus Turns Water Into Wine
Does this miracle justify social drinking?
 “Wine” can be either fermented or unfermented
(Isaiah 65:8; Matthew 9:17; Revelation 19:15)
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The word “winepress” in Revelation 19:15 is translated
from the phrase “τὴν
ληνὸν του οἴνου” which
literally means “the press
of the wine”
The picture shows a wine
press found in the Israel.
It illustrates what Jesus
described in Matt. 21:33
when He said that a land
owner “dug a winepress”
Jesus Turns Water Into Wine
Does this miracle justify social drinking?
 Jesus lived under a law that forbade giving
intoxicating wine to your neighbor (Habakkuk 2:15)
or even looking at wine swirling in the cup
(Proverbs 23:29-34)
 Jesus made a law that forbade both drinking AND
drunkenness (1 Peter 4:3; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
 WOULD Jesus have made 150 gallons MORE of
intoxicating wine to give to those who had already
“well drunk”? (cf. John 2:10)