<p>2:4<em> Jesus said to her: Woman, what have I to do with you?- </em>When He says &ldquo;What have you to do with me?&rdquo; (AV), He seems to be struggling to dissociate Himself from her; for the idiom means &lsquo;How am I involved with you?&rsquo; (2 Kings 3:13; Hos. 14:8). It can be that &ldquo;My hour has not yet come&rdquo; can bear the translation &ldquo;Has not my hour come?&rdquo; (Jn. 2:4), as if to imply that, as they had previously discussed, once His ministry started, their bond would be broken in some ways. And yet Mary understandably found this hard to live up to, and it took the cross to lead her to that level of commitment to her son&rsquo;s cause.&nbsp;</p><p><em>My hour is not yet come</em>- This may refer to the &lsquo;hour&rsquo; of the cross, whereby the true wine / blood would be outpoured, that which had been offered before being inadequate. The governor of the feast, cp. the Jewish elders, &ldquo;knew not whence it was&quot; (2:9), using the same words to describe how they knew not from whence was the Lord, and didn&rsquo;t &lsquo;know&rsquo; / comprehend to where He was going in His death (7:27; 8:14; 19:9). The Lord saw His giving of His life blood on the cross as prefigured by His provision of wine to ignorant people in Cana in their unknown need. But He transforms that which is most ordinary- water- into that which is the most refined, fine wine. His ultimate provision for human need was not prefigured by turning wine into water, as we would expect if He were some pre-existent God who became man. Instead, the most ordinary, water, is turned into wine. It was His humanity which enabled our salvation.</p><p><br />Perhaps when Jesus said to Mary &ldquo;Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come&rdquo; (Jn. 2:4 RSV), He was trying to get her back to spiritual mindedness and is frustrated with her low level of spiritual perception. He tries to lead her back to a higher level by linking the giving of wine with His hour which was to come, i.e. the cross. In Lk. 1 her song shows how spiritually perceptive she was- now she seems to have lost that. She is concerned with the immediate and the material rather than the spiritual. &quot;Woman&quot; was a polite form of public address, but apparently it was unusual for a man to use it to his mother. The Lord felt and stressed that separation between her and Him right now at the start of His ministry, coming to a climax at His death where He told her that He was no longer her son but John was. She must have been <em>so</em> cut by this, if indeed as I have suggested it was the first time He had said this to her.</p>