John 2:1 meaning and explanation
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
John 2:1, Berean Standard Bible
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John opens his Gospel with a series of numbered days, and this verse marks the third day of that sequence, placing the wedding at Cana in Galilee, a village in the hill country north of Nazareth. A wedding in first century Judaism was a public celebration lasting several days, hosted by the groom's family, and running out of wine would have brought real shame on them.
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