The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

stance, yet useful, as much that seems accidental,
to show that there could be neither delusion nor
collusion; how, probably in the drawing of it, the
water became best wine—* the conscious water
saw its God, and blushed ;' then the coarse
proverbial joke of what was probably the master
of ceremonies and purveyor of the feast,* intended,
of course, not literally to apply to the present
company, and yet in its accidentalness an evidence
of the reality of the miracle; after which the
narrative abruptly closes with a retrospective
remark on the part of him who relates it. What the
bridegroom said; whether what had been done
became known to the guests, and, if so, what
impression it wrought; how long Jesus remained;
what His Mother felt—of this and much more that
might be asked. Scripture, with that reverent
reticence which we so often mark, in contrast to
our shallow talkativeness, takes no further notice.
And best that it should be so. St. John meant to tell
us, what the Synoptists, who begin their account
with the later Galilean ministry, have not
recorded,' of the first of £[is miracles as a ' sign,''