Why Turn Water Into Wine?

[SalixIncendium]

So as not to derail the whole Jesus/miracle thread, I thought I'd ask here...

Why did Jesus turn water in to wine? What was the purpose? There are non-alcoholic beverages that are much healthier for you than wine. Herbal tea perhaps? Did he want to get the people at the wedding drunk? If that was the case, why not ale? Or whisky? Why would he put the good people of Cana at risk of dehydration?

Why wine?

 

[Spice]

Status symbol?

 

[Tomef]

So as not to derail the whole Jesus/miracle thread, I thought I'd ask here...

Why did Jesus turn water in to wine? What was the purpose? There are non-alcoholic beverages that are much healthier for you than wine. Herbal tea perhaps? Did he want to get the people at the wedding drunk? I that was the case, why not ale? Or whisky? Why would he put the good people of Cana at risk of dehydration?

Why wine?

Try serving the guests at a wedding herbal tea, especially when they’ve already had a few drinks.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Try serving the guests at a wedding herbal tea, especially when they’ve already had a few drinks.

I thought they just had water.

 

[Spice]

I heard this song on the radio years ago, and just once, but it stated with me enough to look it up. Every time I hear Jesus's miracle of water into wine, I think of this very touching lament.

 

[Spice]

I thought they just had water.

The wine ran out early.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I heard this song on the radio years ago, and just once, but it stated with me enough to look it up. Every time I hear Jesus's miracle of water into wine, I think of this very touching lament.

My daughter performed that miracle with my ex-wife's liquor bottles years ago. About a year ago, my ex was entertaining friends at a card game and she decided to serve drinks.

Let's just say they weren't all that potent.

 

[Tomef]

I thought they just had water.

No, his mum talks Jesus into producing more wine because they were running out.

 

[SalixIncendium]

The wine ran out early.

No, his mum talks Jesus into producing more wine because they were running out.

Thanks. I should have known this.

So wine just to prevent illness from mixing different types of alcohol then?

 

[Tomef]

Thanks. I should have known this.

So wine just to prevent illness from mixing different types of alcohol then?

No, wine because wine is great, and generally served at weddings.

“When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.””
‭‭John‬ ‭2‬:‭3‬ ‭NIV‬‬

God made it first anyway, according to the Bible:

“He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭104‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ ‭NIV‬‬

I have to agree with the Bible here, wine is awesome.

 

[Tomef]

Thanks. I should have known this.

So wine just to prevent illness from mixing different types of alcohol then?

The ‘never mix your drinks’ came a bit later I think, when there were more to choose from. Earlier civilisations made beer, but I think wine was the main bevvy in Roman jurisdictions.

 

[Secret Chief]

why not ale? Or whisky?

Because they weren't invented then?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Because they weren't invented then?

Why would this matter? We're performing miracles here, aren't we?

By the way, ale was around before Christ was born.

 

[Secret Chief]

By the way, ale was around before Christ was born.

Was it?

- Ale - Wikipedia

 

[SalixIncendium]

Was it?

- Ale - Wikipedia

Yes.

The Germans were brewing beer (which they called ol, for `ale’) as early as 800 BCE.​

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Large quantities of beer jugs, still containing evidence of the beer, were discovered in a tomb in the Village of Kasendorf in northern Bavaria, near Kulmbach.​

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[Spice]

Thanks. I should have known this.

So wine just to prevent illness from mixing different types of alcohol then?

We were taught in Sunday School "new wine" was like grape juice. Old wine alcohol, thus the Bible passage not to put new wine in old skins, and vice versa.

 

[Regiomontanus]

So as not to derail the whole Jesus/miracle thread, I thought I'd ask here...

Why did Jesus turn water in to wine? What was the purpose? There are non-alcoholic beverages that are much healthier for you than wine. Herbal tea perhaps? Did he want to get the people at the wedding drunk? If that was the case, why not ale? Or whisky? Why would he put the good people of Cana at risk of dehydration?

Why wine?

Hah, for a second there I thought this was a serious question!

 

[Spice]

Hah, for a second there I thought this was a serious question!

It is, but not of earth shattering magnitude. Do a Google query on why Jesus turned water into wine. The interpretations of the metaphor are of a rather wide variety. I stick with the logical conclusion -- the wedding coordinator, Mother Mary possibly, miss calculated the guests.

 

[Quintessence]

It's not complicated - the mythologies of a given region will reflect the environment they were woven in. I haven't taken a crash course in the history of wine and winemaking or anything but from what I recall from my studies in ethnobotany, this was a serious mainstay of the region at the era during which these myths were constructed. Tea was not. Whiskey was not. Neither was soda.

 

[Jimmy]

He didn’t turn water into wine. He never performed any miracles. He was the miracle.