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To: caww
Mary doesn’t lead us to Jesus at all...she’s in heaven with the Lord.....it’s the work of the Holy Spoirit which brings us to Christ. Just as is clearly stated in the Scriptures and experienced by those who know the Lord and His workings.

I go with what Jesus said to the stewards at the Wedding Feast at Cana. "Do what she tells you". Jesus chose to begin his public ministry after being asked to do so by His Mother. He listened to her, which means he respected her judgement and decision. She knew who He was, and why He was here. There are many in this world who are led by her gentle ministrations to her Son. They don't worship her in the way they worship Jesus, though they do revere her, as He did.

568 posted on 01/01/2012 5:31:18 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; caww

Jesus never told the servants to do what Mary told them. It was the other way around. Mary came to Him and told Him the problem, not even asking Him to do something about it, just telling Him what was wrong.

then SHE told the servants to do whatever HE told them to do.

John 2:1-5 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

And He never addresses her as anything other than *Woman*.

If He indeed started His public ministry at her request, He sure had a strange reaction to her request.... “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”

Her timing was off then because He said that His hour had not yet come.

I have my own idea about what was going on there and I honestly don't think that Mary even knew what Jesus was going to do or how He was going to address the wine shortage.

571 posted on 01/01/2012 5:43:50 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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