SEVEN SIGNS THAT REVEAL WHO JESUS IS  #1
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The story of the first sign is told in John 2:1-11. The setting was a wedding feast held in a village known as Cana of Galilee. In Palestine, wedding festivities were special events that lasted more than a day and could last up to a week. Wine was necessary in a Jewish feast. A Rabbi explained the reason why. He said, "without wine there is no joy."

Because there wasn't a way to purify water well enough, wine diluted with water was safer to drink. At the wedding feast the mother of Jesus was worried that they might run out of wine. It happened.
She asked for Jesus' help. Jesus instructed the servants to "Fill the jars with water:"so they filled them to the brim (John 2:7, NIV). Filling the jars to the brim meant nothing else could be added to it. Jesus turned the water to wine. Only God can make something out of nothing.

John MacArthur says the signs are significant "displays of power that pointed beyond themselves to the deeper divine realities that could be perceived by the eyes of faith." John states the purpose of his book: "But these things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name (John 20:31, NIV).

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