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This may also have something to do with 'leaving mother (and father)" and clinging to the wife "church", as talked about in Genesis 2.
The Wedding at Cana in Galilee is the first and opening miracle in John’s Gospel. When the wine runs out and Mother Mary says:
“They have no wine”
Jesus says:
“Woman, what does that have to do with ...
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Under torah a woman does not have standing to bring a legal claim against her husband, nor can she initiate a divorce. It seems to follow, then, that she could not initiate the sotah ritual against a straying husband. (Note that if there has been adultery, then this means the other man's wife, if he is married, has no recourse against him.)
According to ...
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I always have been reading this reply of Jesus towards Mary as a perfect pattern for any adult man to follow when it comes to requests from a mother: Emancipatory (no longer under the parent's law), setting apart the spheres of influence (lit: What is yours? And what is mine?), but above all doing what is good and right.
Although clear and decisively ...
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John’s extensive marriage theme begins with none other than the wedding of Cana and Jesus’ encounter with His own mother, the first woman to appear in the gospel.
When the "mother of Jesus" approaches him about the wedding’s lack of wine, she assumes and expects her son to assume a role that in Jewish custom is specifically reserved for the groom and or ...
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Short Answer: The "hour" that Jesus is referring to here is the hour of His work on the cross.
"The reason Jesus gives for the distance he maintains between his mother and himself must be viewed in the light of the cross. . . . the word 'time', literally 'hour' (hora), constantly refers to his death on the cross and the exaltation bound up with it (7:30; ...
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