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NASB | John 2:10 and *said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 2:10 and said to him, "Everyone else serves his best wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then he serves that which is not so good; but you have kept back the good wine until now." |
Bible Question:
· A cultural norm appears to be challenged. Why? · Was this wine from the water pots fermented? Alchoholic? Was it not just grape juice? · What is the difference between good wine and poor wine? · Would everyone at a Jewish wedding have the occasion to drink the good wine? · Did all the water in the six water pots turn into wine? · Was it only the water drawn out that turned into wine? |
Bible Answer: New and abundant wine is a sign of the Messianic age in the OT prophets. Jesus contrasts the Old and New Covenants in various places such as the analogy of the Old and New Wineskins. He inaugurates His mission by changing water into wine. It is He who called it the New Covenant in Matt 26:28. Perhaps the most striking liturgical "ancestor" of the Mass is the todah of ancient Israel. The Hebrew word todah, like the Greek word Eucharist, means "thank offereing" or "thanksgiving." The word denotes a sacrificial meal shared with friends in order to celebrate one's graditude to God. A todah begins by recalling some mortal threat and then celebrates man's divine deliverance from that threat. It is a powerful expression of confidence in God's sovereignty and mercy. "Psalm 69 is a good example. An urgent plea for deliverance ("Save me , O God!"), it is at the same time a celebration of that eventual deliverance ("I will praise the name of God with a song... For the Lord hears the needy"). "Perhaps the classic example of the todah is Psalm 22, which begins with "My God, my GoD, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus Himself quoted this as He hung on the cross. His listeners would have recognized the reference, and they would have known that this song, which begins with a cry of dereliction, ends on a triumphant note of salavtion. Citing this todah, Jesus demonstrates His own confident hope in deliverance. "The similarities between todah and eucharist go beyond their common meaning of thanksgiving. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict) has written: "Structurally speaking, the whole of Christology, indeed the whole of Eucharistic Christology, is present in the todah spirituality of the Old Testament." Both the todah and the Eucharist present their worship through word and meal. Moreover, the todah, like the Mass, includes an unbloody offering of bread and wine. "The ancient rabbis made a significant prediction regarding the todah. "In the coming (Messianic) age, all sacifices will cease except the todah sacrifice. This will never cease in all eternity." (Pesiqta, I, p. 159)." excerped from: The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth by Scott Hahn p 32-33 Doubleday 1999 Emmaus |
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