Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 2:5
His mother saith to the servants — Gathering from his answer he was about to do something extraordinary.
His mother saith to the servants — Gathering from his answer he was about to do something extraordinary.
Verse John 2:5. _HIS MOTHER SAITH_, c.] The virgin seems to have understood our Lord as hinted above. It was not yet time to grant them a supply, because the want had not as yet been generally _felt_....
HIS MOTHER SAITH ... - It is evident from this verse that his mother did not understand what he had said as a harsh reproof and repulse, but as an indication of his willingness at the proper time to f...
CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2:1-22 _ 1. The Marriage in Cana. (John 2:1 .)_ 2. The Temple Cleansed. (John 2:12 .) The second chapter gives the record of the first miracle reported in this Gospel. He manifest...
THE MARRIAGE AT CANA. On the third day the promise to Nathanael of greater things to follow is fulfilled. Modern exploration has suggested three sites for Cana, all of them near Nazareth, and to the N...
WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU, DO IT. The words of Mary to the servants show: 1. That the family where the wedding took place were in comfortable circumstances; 2. That Mary had some right to direct...
THE NEW EXHILARATION (John 2:1-11)...
Two days after this there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee; and Jesus' mother was there. And Jesus was invited to the wedding and so were his disciples. When the wine had run short, Jesus' mother said...
SERVANTS. free servants. Greek. _diakonos._ Compare Matthew 20:26; Mark 9:35. WHATSOEVER, &c. Mary's last-recorded words....
Between the lines of His refusal her faith reads a better answer to her appeal....
5. Between the lines of His refusal her faith reads a better answer to her appeal, and she is content to leave all to Him....
John 2:1-11. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FIRST SIGN Jesus is passing from the retirement in which He has lived so long into the publicity of His ministry. The scene which follows lies halfway between—in the...
Ver 5. His mother said to the servants, Whatsoever he says to you, do it. 6. And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three fir...
_JESUS' FIRST MIRACLE -- JOHN 2:1-11:_ On the third day after Jesus' discussion with Nathanael Jesus performed His first miracle. The miracle was at a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Mary, the mother of J...
О ΤΙ ΑΝ (G3739; G5101: 323) что бы то ни было, ΛΈΓΗ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Conj._ с ΆΝ выражает обобщение. Мария предвосхищает некие непосредственные действия или требования С...
MARY'S EXPECTATIONS REBUKED BY JESUS _Text 2:1-5_ 1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2 and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples to...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 2:1-11 First of all we will give a brief and simple Analysis of the passage before us:— We propose to expound the passage before us from a threefold viewpoint:...
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. HIS MOTHER SAITH UNTO THE SERVANTS, WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU, DO IT....
1 Cana, in Hebrew, means "acquire". The marriage feast is a sign of the time when the Son acquires the kingdom, and as the bridegroom is elated over the bride, so will He be elated over Israel (Isa_62...
THE WEDDING AT CANA. THE TEMPLE CLEANSED 1-11. The marriage at Cana. This miracle is not recorded by the synoptists because it occurred before the beginning of the ministry proper. St. John records it...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 2 JESUS CHANGES WATER SO THAT IT BECOMES WINE 2:1-12 V1 The next day, there was a wedding in Cana in *Galilee. Jesus’ m...
WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU. — His answer has not repelled her. She still believes and expects. Her command to the servants confirms the opinion that the marriage is of some member of the family. Thi...
CHAPTER 5 THE FIRST SIGN-THE MARRIAGE IN CANA. “And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: and Jesus also was bidden, and His disciples, to the marr...
JESUS BLESSES SOCIAL JOYS John 2:1-11 The keyword here is _signs,_ John 2:11, r.v. translated in the Authorized Version as _miracles._ They are windows into the eternal purpose. The Lord loved to joi...
At Cana our Lord wrought what John describes as the "beginning of His signs." It was a sign of power in the realm of creation, and of it being exercised in answer to faith. It was a sign, moreover, of...
CHAPTER 8 THE MARRIAGE AT CANA 0F GALILEE John 2:1-12. _“On the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.”_ This marriage was the third day after His depar...
VER. 5. “ _His mother says to the servants, Whatsoever he says to you_, “ _do it._ ” Something in the tone and expression of Jesus gives Mary to understand that this refusal leaves a place for a more...
THIRD SECTION: 2:1-11. THE FIRST MIRACLE. STRENGTHENING OF FAITH. Jesus, after having been declared by John to be the Messiah, manifested Himself as such to His first disciples; an utterance of miracu...
And the third day there was marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. (2) And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. (3) And when they wanted wine, the mother...
The opening verses (John 1:1-18) introduce the most glorious subject which God Himself ever gave in employing the pen of man; not only the most glorious in point of theme, but in the profoundest point...
_KNOWLEDGE FROM OBEDIENCE_ ‘Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.’ John 2:5 Mary, the mother of our Lord, speaks only on three occasions (in the sacred records), and those three utterances of hers a...
5._His mother saith to the servants. _Here the holy Virgin gives an instance of true obedience which she owed to her Son, (47) when the question related, not to the relative duties of mankind, but to...
The third day we find in chapter 2. A marriage takes place in Galilee. Jesus is there; and the water of purification is changed into the wine of joy for the marriage-feast. Afterwards at Jerusalem He...
HIS MOTHER SAID UNTO THE SERVANTS,.... She took the reproof in good part, and by the words he said, and the manner in which he spoke them, or by the looks he gave, and the gestures he might use, she h...
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do _it_. Ver. 5. _His mother saith to the servants_] Not a word to her Son, though he had publicly reproved her. "Once I have spoken,...
_His mother_ Either gathering from his answer, or from something he said to her which the evangelists have not recorded, that he would perform something extraordinary; _saith unto the servants, Whatso...
HIS MOTHER SAITH UNTO THE SERVANTS, WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU, DO IT. The wedding-feast seems to have been planned and carried out on a large scale, and yet not all contingencies had been provided...
The embarrassing situation:...
A MARRIAGE ON THE THIRD DAY (vs.1-12) Now we are told of a third day, and a marriage in Cana. This is typical of Israel's new relationship with their Messiah and the receiving of the joy of His mirac...
1-11 It is very desirable when there is a marriage, to have Christ own and bless it. Those that would have Christ with them at their marriage, must invite him by prayer, and he will come. While in th...
She plainly by these words declareth her confidence that Christ (notwithstanding the repulse he gave her) would supply this want; and therefore taking no notice of Christ's reprehension of her, she or...
Tertullian On Baptism The comparison with this law of that definition, "Unless a man have been reborn of water and Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of the heavens,"[140]...
John 2:5 His G846 mother G3384 said G3004 (G5719) servants G1249 Whatever G3748 G302 says G3004 ...
‘His mother says to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.' Mary clearly did not feel His words as a rebuke, but just as a reminder that she must not hurry Him into His work. But she knows Him...
HELPING AT A WEDDING AND CLEANSING THE TEMPLE - JOHN 2 The Wedding at Cana (John 2:1). The incident at the wedding in Cana of Galilee is said by the writer to be the first of Jesus' ‘signs'. This bri...
The general subject of the second great division of the Gospel is continued in this section. It contains an account of the miracle at Cana of Galilee, in which, as we are told at John 2:11, Jesus ‘man...
John 2:5. HIS MOTHER SAITH UNTO THE SERVANTS, WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU, DO IT. The answer of Jesus (John 2:4) plainly implied that His hour would come. Mary, therefore, turns to the servants, and...
UNTO THE SERVANTS (τοις διακονοις). See on Matthew 20:26 for this word (our "deacon," but not that sense here).WHATSOEVER HE SAITH UNTO YOU, DO IT (Hοτ αν λεγη υμιν ποιησατε). Indefinite relative...
John 2:5 We must perceive at once the peculiar appropriateness with which this miracle was chosen as the first to be performed by our Lord, when we bear in mind that the great object of our Lord's in...
Our Saviour had lived on the earth for thirty years, and had worked no miracle. There was the hiding of his power. He had been subject unto his parents, and had lived in obscurity. Now he has broken t...
CONTENTS: The marriage at Cana and the first miracle of Jesus. The passover and the purification of the temple. CHARACTERS: Jesus, mother, disciples. CONCLUSION: Those who expect the favors of Chris...
John 2:1. _The third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee,_ when the sun of righteousness shone out with divine glory. Cana of Galilee is here mentioned to distinguish it from Cana near Sidonia...
DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU. She seems to understand that he will do something about the shortage of wine....
_The third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee._ THE MIRACLE AT CANA I. THE OCCASION ON WHICH THE MIRACLE WAS WROUGHT. 1. The time. The third day after the interview with Nathanael. 2. The...
_Whatsoever Be saith unto you, do it_ IMPLICIT OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST That is a remarkable claim. It is almost startling to be told that, without leaving room for our own opinion, whatever a certain vo...
CHAPTER 2 _On the third day_, &c. _The third day_, that is, from Christ's departure for Galilee, and the calling of Philip. For this was the last date mentioned by S. John. The following is the sequen...
_His Mother saith,_ &c. His mother modestly holds her peace, and rightly yields to her Son, as being the Son of God. Although the Son seems to deny His Mother, the Mother knows His filial piety. There...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 2:1. τῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ—This note of time refers to John 1:43. He was evidently in Galilee when He found Philip; thus _the third day_ will mean the third after His...
EXPOSITION VERSES 2:1-3:4 _The testimony of signs to the glory of the Word made flesh._ JOHN 2:1 (1) _The first sign, the beginning of signs, Mastery over the old creation. Sign of love and power....
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the gospel according to John. The gospel of John was the last of the gospels that were written. It was written towards the close of that first century, written by John,...
Acts 9:6; Genesis 6:22; Hebrews 11:8; Hebrews 5:9; John 15:14;...
Unto the servants [δ ι α κ ο ν ο ι ς]. See on Matthew 20:26; Mark 9:35....
THE WATER TURNED INTO WINE John 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this Scripture the first miracle which Christ wrought is recorded, and it is a miracle full of marvelous significance. Our opening verse re...