John 2:1 "And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: and both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage." The third day seems to play a significant part in Johns’ writings. Hosea tells in that (6:2) ‘in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.’ Day one (Adam unto Abraham, or the patriot age), the second day (Abraham until Jesus, or the Law age), the third day (Jesus until end of time, or the gospel age). Here in this verse we have the setting up of the gospel age, wherein we are to sup with our husband, wherein Hosea tells us that we shall live in his sight. John 21:12 here we find Jesus inviting his disciples to ‘Come and dine, now this was the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, and he ask Peter the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me.’ If indeed we desire to be true followers of Jesus our husband we must (Job 23:12) ‘esteemed the words of his mouth more than our necessary food.’ John also tells us in John 6:39 that he shall ‘raise it up again at the last day’, and again ‘labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you’. Notice: it does not use a personal pronoun here but ‘it’ as referred to in Hosea concerning the 'us', or bride of Jesus.
Vs 3 "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." John repeats the phrase ‘not yet come’, three other time (7:6, 7:30, and 8:20) indicating that Jesus has a set time to be offered up as the Passover Lamb. This would take place on the fourteenth day of the first month, 3960 years after Adam was created, or in the evening of the fourteenth year of time (2 Pet 3:8). The Son of God was to be set forth on the tenth day of time (Gen 1:3, Ex 12:3) and offered up on the fourteenth day of time (Ex 12:18 at evening). In Gen 1:1 god created time, and set in place all of the elements, which was to make up this time world. He then set in motion the events that were to take place in time. The first was to create the angelic entities to give him praise, including a third, which would rebel, again his authority. At the time of this rebellion we find that the created earth was without form and void, until God set forth His only Son as the Lamb of God (Gen 1:3), bring order form chaos.
Vs 6 "And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." These were the earthen vessels made for the purifying, of the things of the temple. Six, being the number of man in his natural Adamic state. They represented the sins (filth 1 Pet 3:21) of the flesh being washed off, in order that the service of God could be performed. They also represent the written word turned into wine when the gospel is preached in the power and demonstration of the spirit (3:5).
Vs 7 "Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, and saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now." The scriptures always states the natural before the spiritual.
Vs 11 "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him." His mission here on earth was to show his own who he was by his works and word Matt 11:21 ‘If the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. (John 10:38) Though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, (12:48) for the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day (gospel day).
Vs 12 "After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days." The other gospels place the temptation of Jesus shortly after his baptism. In Matthew 4:14 the neat statement is that John the Baptist was in prison (Mt 4:12). Here in John we find that the time element to be stated different as here they were in Cana on the third day after his baptism. We also find that ‘The Baptist’ was not yet in prison (3:24) which was after they had attended the first Passover (2:23). The phrase ‘not many day’ tends to indicate an even longer time before his temptation. We must remember as stated in the beginning of his writings he is focused on a different aspect of Jesus life, that that pertains to his bride and not all of the children of God. Mount Ebel, which is most likely the mount wherein the temptation took place is on the west ‘side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?’ Deut 11:30)
Vs 13 "And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changes of money sitting: and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; and said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." This is the first Passover after his baptism, which is not recorded in the other gospels. The phrase ‘overthrew the tables’ is a different time than that recorded in Mt 21:12, Mk 11:15 & Lk 19:45 because these three gospels only record the forth or last Passover. 2nd 6:4, 3rd 13:1
Vs 17 "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. 18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that
thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.