He drank whatever wine was offered to Him... Yes it was alcoholic not grape juice..
We had a SBC pastor preach to us years ago on the wedding. He said, “An then Jesus turned the water into pure unfermented grape juice!”
We tried not to laugh in church.
I just read where they found some ancient grape seeds from that area. The wine was famous back then. The modern grapes are very different I guess. They hope to replicate the old grapes from the seeds they found.
The water wasn't always safe back then. Instead they drank the juice from the grapes. As the juice aged, it naturally turned to wine because of the natural yeast it has on it's skin and the natural sugar contained in the fruit.
When the wine turned, it was still safer to drink than the water. The bible does say not to tarry too long at the wine flask, though. After it turned, people were not to go crazy with it.
Had they a way to keep the grape juice fresh so it wouldn't ferment, I'm sure they would have preferred the juice rather than the wine, because the next stage of the ferment is vinegar. (The wine/vinegar mix they offered Christ to drink while hanging on the cross).
Hey, my tee-totaling Baptist Grandmother assured me that the wine mentioned in the Bible was just grape juice like Welch’s/
And it was strong. That’s where the tradition of cutting the wine with water came from.
Strange, huh?
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>> “Yes it was alcoholic not grape juice..” <<
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Obviously! - Grape juice would become bad wine in 2 weeks anyway.
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