Great Works of Western Art - Wedding Feast at Cana.
An Exegetical Reading of the Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11) - An Excerpt from John. ZA Blog; January 6, 2017; Share Twitter Facebook; Categories Book Excerpts. Today’s excerpt is from the Gospel of John, the newest installment in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Written by Edward W. Klink III, the excerpt below from John 2:1-11 is an example of how each passage is.
The Significance of the Wedding in Cana. At the wedding feast at Cana Jesus performed his first miracle by changing the water into wine. The new wine is in contrast to the water of the old traditions. Jesus later went on to introduce the new Passover symbolism of the bread and wine. The wedding narrative has symbolism for the calling out of the physical nation of Israel, the sacrifice of.
The Wedding at Cana story, located early in the Gospel of John, is one of the most famous stories about Jesus in the Bible. In brief, the well-known narrative is that Jesus and his disciples go to a wedding, the wine runs out (but why is the wine gone???), Jesus miraculously turns water into really good wine, everyone is amazed, and the party continues.
Jacopo Tintoretto’s Wedding Feast at Cana is a painting of substantial size (14.4 ft x 19.3 ft) and now hangs high on the wall of the sacristy in the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice. Originally painted for the refectory of the convent of the Crociferi, the canvas was transferred to the Salute following the suppression of the religious order in the seventeenth century. After.
A Jewish wedding feast usually lasted seven days, and in a small town like Cana, it is likely that everyone took part in the celebration, in one way or another. Jesus came accompanied by his first disciples. With so many people attending, it is not surprising that the wine ran short. Ever attentive to the needs of those around her, Mary was the first to realize it and told her Son.
The Wedding at Cana is compelling, moving and, dare I say, enjoyable, moving between abstract games of deconstruction and intimate tableaux, between the banal and the sacred. Miracles mix with social history and advanced technology. Yet, since my return from Venice, I have found myself struggling to describe the experience of it. Partially this is an issue of language: I am sure there is a.
The Marriage Feast of Cana also reveals how Mary makes up for our battered and weak wills; she does this by substituting herself for us. It is very hard for us to receive a Divine Favor unless we desire it. Until we love and serve God, we are inert and dead. It is impossible for most of us to ask for a soul-healing, for so few of us know that we are wounded. Mary comes into this crisis of life.