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.
A lot?
What percentage?
Could we not say, "some", "few", "most", or any other vague numerical descriptor here?
For that matter; why say "modern"?
Looking between the lines to try to find some obscure theological 'truth' that's been somehow missed is how various cults run off the tracks (a 'vague' reference to the 'Narrow Way').
What wrong with 'assuming' that is it what it is: a normal, typical, Jewish wedding.
Matthew 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.