2 "On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.”So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him."
John 2:1-11
There would seem to be a link between the story of the miracle at Cana and the last verses of the previous chapter, when Jesus spoke of the heavens opening and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. The message there, so to speak, is: Heaven brought down to earth through Christ. This is what we have at Cana, where power from on high breaks in to work wonders - the powers of the world to come invading the human situation. That, says John, is what the gospel is about. The Word was made flesh; the water was made into wine. The two things belong together. There seems also to be a reference back to 1:14, where John says, 'We beheld His glory'. Here also (11) that glory was manifested, and the result was faith: His disciples believed on Him. But what precisely constituted the manifesting of His glory in this miracle? What is the significance of it? For John there was a deep symbolism in the act of power behind and beyond the gracious act that saved the day for that particular bridal feast, because he saw in it the symbol of what the coming of Jesus means. This sign - with the others which follow it in John's record - points to the new order in Christ. The message is simple and to the point: It is the difference that Jesus makes when He comes to a human situation, a human heart, a human life. He touches nothing that He does not transform. And as the disciples watched the miracle, this truth dawned on them; they 'got the message', and believed.