Second Sunday after Epiphany: Gospel, John 2:1-11            

John 2:1-11

Epiphany is a wonderful season in the church year. It’s not a point of great emphasis. It occupies a couple months of Sundays, but no one goes around with “Happy Epiphany” on their lips. But as is true to the title, it is a season of “Aha” moments beginning with the discovery, by foreign scholastics/astronomers, of the King of Israel. More to it, the King of the Universe into which they spent their lives gazing. And for all their gazing, and ours, we find that upon looking at both the Christ child and the adult Christ, there are always surprises. 

In the famous account here in John 2 of Jesus transforming water into the finest wine, the master of the feast speaks to the bridegroom, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now” (John 2:10, NKJV). As I have commented more than once in my meditations, the kingdom of Jesus is somewhat upside-down. Which is simply to say Jesus does things unlike anyone else.

There is a reason. Jesus is unlike anyone else.