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WINE – THEY HAVE NOT MORE WINE / JOHN 2:3

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(KJV) John 2:3

 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

WINE – THEY HAVE NOT MORE WINE / JOHN 2:3

WINE

The word “wine” (Greek onions) in the New Testament is a generic term and can refer to many types of grape beverage, either fermented (alcoholic and potentially intoxicating) or unfermented wine. The type of wine must be determined by the context.

THEY HAVE NO MORE WINE

Some believe that both the wine provided at the beginning of the wedding and the wine Jesus made were fermented (alcoholic) and consumed in large quantities. Yet, those who accept this view would then have to recognize and explain the following probabilities: 

  1. A number of guests at the wedding would likely be drunk or nearly drunk by the time Jesus is asked to provide more wine, since the guests had already drunk so freely that the host had run out of wine. 
  2. Mary, the mother of Jesus, would be showing regret that the intoxicating drink had run out and would ask Jesus to supply people who may have already had too much to drink with even more alcoholic wine. 
  3. In order to respond to His mother’s wishes, Jesus would be making 120-180 gallons of intoxicating wine (John 2:6-9), more than enough to cause extreme drunkenness. 
  4. Jesus would be making this intoxicating beverage as the very first of His “miraculous signs” by which He “revealed His glory” (John 2:11) and showed that He is the Son of God and spiritual Savior of humankind. 

To propose that Jesus made alcoholic wine would certainly seem to contradict the moral principles stated in other parts of God’s Word. In light of God’s holy nature (the fact that He is completely pure, perfect, complete and separated from evil), Christ’s loving concern for humanity and Mary’s good character, it is reasonable to conclude that the choice of new wine Jesus created was pure, sweet and unfermented. These were characteristics associated with “new wine” at the time (as opposed to aged and fermented wine). In addition, the wine Jesus made was described as even better than usual. Considering the quantities and the occasion, it is likely that the original, inferior wine furnished by the head of the banquet was not fermented or at least was greatly diluted (as were many forms of wine in those days).

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