I suspect that Mary wasn’t even hinting at a miracle.
Apparently, Joseph wasn’t in the picture any more so as the oldest son, Jesus is the one who Mary would naturally go to if there was a problem.
I think she just mentioned it in a worried mom kind of way, like *Oh No! What are they going to do now?* and maybe expecting him to order some more or come up with some kind of solution. Or maybe just bemoaning the tragedy of it. Like it was something that was NOT good.
There’s no knowing if Jesus had ever given her any reason during His life to expect that He could perform miracles.
One other suspicion that I have is that this may have been a family wedding where somehow they were related to the host and somehow had the ability to actually do something about providing more.
Interesting point MM. I wonder if this was another marriage relationship where the wife was supposed to be an ever virgin? 😆😄 On the other hand, I wonder if the half brothers and sisters of Jesus, the natural children of Mary and Joseph, were serving at the wedding too? Or do you think the stork brought Mary and Joseph their other children, since they allegedly didn't do the deed? 😆😱
But it is presumptuous to read too much into this vignette. But that's what a lot of modern readers do, presuming that the marriage was going to be just some riotous feast, with people already three sheets to the wind.
My belief is that this wedding, the occasion of the first miracle inaugurating His public ministry, is to be taken seriously and studied very closely for its content as related to the prophetic aspects.
Was it to be a type of which the Heavenly Marriage of the Lamb would be the antitype?
Who is utterly convinced that the event was even planned to employ wine at all?
Would Jesus make and offer alcoholic wine either here or at the Remembrance Supper?
There are a lot of issues to consider, but my inclination is not to follow it up on this thread, where it would be way off topic. I am deeply interested in this passage, but not in trying to comprehend the scope by addressing it in bits and pieces.
I've already got further into it than I want, but thanks for offering your observations and conjectures.
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>> “I suspect that Mary wasn’t even hinting at a miracle.” <<
Yeshua has been exceptionally precocious all of his life, and simple miracles abounded.
But this was a special miracle, in that is ser the pattern for all of his subsequent miracles:
It demolished the Pharisees’ false law (takanot) of “The Washing of the Hands.”
Yeshua made the wine in the Pharisees’ ceremonial hand washing pots.
Each miracle thereafter demolished one of the Pharisees’ takanot.
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