3.         Uses power

1st & 2nd signs

2:1-10

Cana/Galilee

4:43-50

Cana/Galilee

 

2:1-11 On the third day (after John the Baptist) pointed him out) there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there.  Both Jesus and his disciples had been invited to the wedding.  (It turned out) there was not enough wine (there) and the mother of Jesus says to him "They haven't any wine."   Jesus says to her. "What concern is that to myself and to you woman?  My hour has not yet come."  His mother says to the servants.  "Do whatever he tells you."  Now there were six stone water-pots there according to the purifying (rituals) of the Jews.  Each of them contained two or three measures (of water).  Jesus said to them "Fill the water-pots with water."  So they filled them to the top.  Then he tells them "Now draw some out and carry it to the master of the feast."  And so they took some (to him).  When the master of the feast had tasted the water which in fact had become wine, he did not know where it came from.  The servants however knew since it was they who had drawn the water to start with.  The master of the feast called to the bridegroom and said to him.  "People set out the good wine first and when people have drunk it they put out the worst.  But you have kept the good wine until now."    

4:43-50  After the two days (in the Samaritan city) He went on into Galilee.  Jesus himself gave witness that a prophet is not honoured in his own native place.  When therefore he came into Galilee the Galileans received him, having seen the things he did in Jerusalem at the feast.  For they also had gone to the feast.  He therefore came again to Cana of Galilee where he had made the water into wine.  Now there was a certain courtier (there) whose son was in Capernaum and was ill.  This man  heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee and he went to him and asked if he would come down and cure his son for he was about to die.  Jesus therefore said to him.  "Unless you see signs and wonders you do not believe."  The courtier said to him  "Sir come down before my child dies."  Jesus tells him "Go your son will live."  The man believed in the word which was said to him by Jesus and went. 

 

4.         Relies on Household

c/f power exercise

2:11-12

Capernaum/Galilee

4:51-54

Capernaum/Galilee

 

 

2:11-12  What Jesus did in Cana of Galilee was the beginning of his signs.  It showed his glory and helped his disciples to believe in him.  After this  he and his mother and brothers and his disciples went down to Capernaum but they did not stay there many days.

4:51-54 While he was going down (to Capernaum) his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.  He therefore asked at what hour the boy got better.  They said to him "Yesterday at the seventh hour (1 pm) the fever left him."  The father therefore knew that it was in that hour that Jesus had said to him "You son lives."  Thus he believed as did the whole of his household.   This was a second sign that Jesus did on having come out of Judea into Galilee.