The Hour
Ever wonder what Jesus was taking about in John 2 at the wedding at Cana when He told his mother "Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come." (John 2:4)? To be honest, I hadn't given it much thought until this year, and specifically as I have started my 2023 devotional reading in John.... reading this year not chapter-by-chapter but thought-by-thought (which has taken me a little longer to get through this time). I always thought, and probably because it's in line with what I've been taught, that Jesus was talking about His time to make His public ministry known, when He's referring to "my hour." Also, there is a tradition that this act Jesus did in this narrative of turning water into wine was His first miracle... John says in John 2:11 that "This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him." It could have been Jesus' first miracle,