Jesus’s response to his mother in this famous passage is generally considered “the most perplexing verse about Mary in all of Scripture.” It appears to express “a very definite, even harsh denial of any community between him and her.” Yet even if it were credible that the perfect Jewish son could speak rudely to his mother, Mary’s instruction to the servants and the miracle that follows indicate that she did not take his reply as a “no.” Moreover, John puts the scene front and center as the archē (“beginning,” 2:11) of Jesus’s signs, echoing the opening phrase of the Bible and of his own Gospel ( en archēi, “in the beginning”) and signaling the “beginning” of a new era. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:1-5). On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.
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