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CHOICE WINE – HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK / JOHN 2:10

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(KJV) John 2:10

And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

CHOICE WINE – HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK / JOHN 2:10

CHOICE WINE

It is significant that the Greek adjective translated “choice” and “best” (John 2:10) is not agathos, meaning “good,” but kalos, meaning “morally excellent and benefiting.” Even secular writers of the time confirm the notion that the best “wines” were sweet and unfermented. The Roman writer, Pliny, stated that “good wine,” called sapa, was not fermented (was not alcoholic). Sapa was grape juice boiled down to one-third of its original volume to increase its sweet flavor. He also wrote that “witness are most beneficial when all their potency has been removed by the strainer” (Pliny, Natural History, XIV.23-24). Pliny, Plutarch and Horace all suggest that the best wine was the type that was “harmless and innocent.”

HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK

The phrase “had too much to drink” is from the Greek world methusko, a word that has two meanings:

  1. To be or become drunk.
  2. To be filled or satisfied (without reference to intoxication). Methusko may be understood here as the second meaning. However this text is translated, the banquet master is making a general observation that would have applied to any wedding celebration, no matter the type of drink served. He simply was acknowledging that hosts want to keep their guests happy and that satisfied guests do not suddenly raise their expectations. This remark does not assume that guests are drunk and for this reason lack the ability to discern the quality of wine. The context of this passage in no way suggests that Jesus participated in and contributed to a drunken party (John 2:3).

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  1. WINE – THEY HAVE NOT MORE WINE / JOHN 2:3
  2. YOU SHALL SEE HEAVEN OPEN / JOHN 1:51
  3. CEPHAS … PETER / JOHN 1:42
  4. THE FIRST THING ANDREW DID / JOHN 1:41
  5. WILL BAPTIZE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT / JOHN 1:33
  6. LAMB OF GOD / JOHN 1:29
  7. GRACE AND TRUTH / JOHN 1:17
  8. THE WORD BECAME FLESH / JOHN 1:14
  9. BORN NOT OF … HUMAN DECISION / JOHN 1:13
  10. RECEIVED … BELIEVED / JOHN 1:12
  11. THE WORLD DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM / JOHN 1:10
  12. GIVES LIGHT TO EVERY MAN / JOHN 1:9
  13. LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS /JOHN 1:5
  14. LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN / JOHN 1:4
  15. WITH GOD IN THE BEGINNING / JOHN 1:2
  16. THE WORD / JOHN 1:1
  17. TRUTH / JOHN 4:24
  18. WORSHIP … IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH / JOHN 4:23-24
  19. SAMARITANS WORSHIP WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW / JOHN 4:22
  20. WATER … ETERNAL LIFE / JOHN 4:14
  21. SAMARITAN WOMAN / JOHN 4:7
  22. WHOEVER REJECTS / JOHN 3:36
  23. LOVED DARKNESS INSTEAD OF LIGHT / JOHN 3:19
  24. GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD / JOHN 3:16
  25. KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES / JOHN 13:35
  26. LOVE ONE ANOTHER / JOHN 13:34
  27. AT A LOSS TO KNOW WHICH OF THEM HE MEANT / JOHN 13:22
  28. WASH ONE ANOTHER’S FEET / JOHN 13:14
  29. UNLESS I WASH YOU / JOHN 13:8
  30. WASH HIS DISCIPLES FEET /JOHN 13:5
  31. HAS GRANTED THE SON TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF / JOHN 5:26
  32. TAKING FROM WHAT IS MINE / JOHN 16:14
  33. HE IS A LIEAR AND THE FATHER OF LIES / JOHN 8:44
  34. EVERYONE WHO SINS / JOHN 8:34
  35. HOLY SPIRIT / JOHN 14:26
  36. I WILL ASK THE FATHER – COUNSELOR / JOHN 14:16
  37. JESUS HAD NOT YET BEEN GLORIFIED / JOHN 7:39
  38. AS THE SCRIPTURE HAS SAID – STREAMS OF LIVING WATER / JOHN 7:38
  39. YOU ARE GODS? / JOHN 10:34
  40. HE WHO DOES NOT LOVE ME / JOHN 14:24
  41. REMAIN IN MY LOVE / JOHN 15:9-10
  42. ETERNAL LIFE / JOHN 17:3
  43. I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD / JOHN 8:12
  44. SANCTIFY THEM BY THE TRUTH / JOHN 17:17
  45. THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE / JOHN 8:32
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