<p>2:10 <em>And said to him: Everyone serves good wine first, and when all have drunk freely, serves something inferior. But you have kept the good wine until now</em>- The wedding feast at Cana had been going on for some time, to the point that men had drunk so much wine that they could no longer discern its quality. For <em>methuo = </em>'to drink to intoxication', not simply &quot;drunk freely&quot;. The Lord didn&rsquo;t say, as I might have done, &lsquo;Well that&rsquo;s enough, guys&rsquo;. He realised the shame of the whole situation, that even though there had been enough wine for everyone to have some, they had run out. And so He produced some more- actually, over 600 litres of it. He went along with the humanity of the situation in order to teach a lesson to those who observed what really happened.</p><p>The Lord clearly had no problem in making wine at Cana. Would He have shared a mug of wine with the boys when, say, someone had a birthday? And therefore would a 21st century Jesus have shared a beer with His fellow workers? Now in my image of Jesus I'm not sure He would have done. But perhaps in your image of Him, He would have. Apart from the memorial meeting, I don't drink, and haven't done for many years. I know how in many cultures this seems to erect a barrier between me and those I seek to make contact with. But when Jesus made the water into wine, He provided about 180 gallons 400 litres of it. At a time when surely some were already rather the worse for wear from alcohol- for the master of the feast pointed out that the best wine i.e. with higher alcohol content was brought out only when people couldn't tell the difference, because they had &quot;well drunk&quot; (Jn. 2:10- Gk. <em>methuo</em>, 'to drink to intoxication'). I wouldn't have done that. At least, not to that extent- for you can be sure, they drank it all up. But He did, so comfortable was He with His humanity. And this perhaps was what made all kinds of people so comfortable with Him, prostitutes and old grannies, kids and mafia bosses, saints 'n' aints. We seem so often ashamed of being human, indeed, some have taken their understanding of 'sinful human nature' to the extent that it's almost a sin to be alive. Whatever we say about human nature, we say about our Lord. Let's remember this. But Jesus was happy with who He was. &nbsp;</p>