Wine in the Bible: Why Did Jesus Make Wine When the People Were Already Drunk?

In Jewish weddings, wine plays a very important role in the wedding celebrations. It is very important for the wine to last until the very end of the wedding, so that everyone has enough booze to drink. As luck would have it, at the wedding where Jesus turned water into wine in the Bible, this was not the case. The second chapter and the third verse in the Gospel of John says that "When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, 'They have no wine'." Clearly there was a shortage of wine during the wedding ceremony. As you can imagine, this was quite an embarrassing situation for the hosts. So the mother of Jesus sought His help.

People may ask, "What kind of wine maker was Jesus? Was the wine he concocted of high quality? First of all, let's understand that the Bible does not tell us clearly whether the guests were already entirely drunk. It looks like they were in the middle of the celebration when the wine ran out. So they were already somewhat tipsy. And we all know that even poor wine tastes great when you are already drunk. But the important thing to notice here is that Jesus would not do things differently, depending on the intoxication of the guests. He would always create good wine. It is said that He is always perfect in His work. Let's investigate further.

The most popular book in the world states: He is the person who created the heaven and earth. The Bible says in Colossians 1:16 that all things were created by him in heaven and on earth, both the visible and the invisible. Be it thrones or powers, rulers or authorities, everything was created by Him and for Him. If God created the heaven and the earth so perfectly, how can He not create wine perfectly as well? For further proof, in 1 John 1: 3 we read that all things were made through him, and that nothing was made, that has ever been made, without his help. So the Bible is very clear that God (and thus his son, by the transitive property) created all things both visible and invisible. Yes eggheads, this does include quantum particles as well.

The Old Testament states that the edges of the universe, which are visible to the most powerful telescopes (and even those things beyond), are His workmanship. Moreover, even the things that are in the invisible realm, which we call heaven were also created by JC and his father . Thus the Person who created everything, that exists both in the visible and invisible realms, can only create anything in perfect beauty and order. It can be no doubt that the wine He created at the wedding at Cana in Galilee was also perfect in all its grapey goodness as well.

Was the wine organic, kosher wine? Now THAT is another debate altogether.

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