Epiphany #4: Human and Devine

 The steward did not know

   where the wine came from. (John 2:9)

The “miraculous sign” does not turn Jesus into someone other than “the man Christ Jesus” (1Tm 2:6). He never losses his humanity. It’s not as if, when he does a miracle, he’s all God. And otherwise, he’s just a man. He is always and already Jesus/Emmanuel. As the creed puts it: “In one Person… truly God and truly man …without confusion, without change, without division and without separation” (Chalcedon, 451).

In this “first of his miraculous signs”—turning water into wine; notice how Jesus remains “Jesus.” There’s no showing off, or strutting around. Jesus doesn’t say, “Watch this!” He just quietly helps the wedding festivities along. And, maybe preserves his mother’s honor. The miraculous act is such a human act, isn’t it? At Cana, Jesus reveals not only his divinity; but, his humanity. In his Devine humanity, Christ salvages our humanity.