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“Both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.”
John 2:2 (NKJV)

Maybe it was Andrew who asked it. Perhaps Peter. Could be that all approached Jesus. But I wager that at some point in Jesus’ first journey, the disciples expressed their assumptions.

  “So Rabbi, where are you taking us? To the desert?”

  “No,” opines another, “he’s taking us to the temple.”

  Then a chorus of confusion breaks out and ends only when Jesus lifts his hand and says softly, “We’re on our way to a wedding.”

  Silence.  John and Andrew look at each other. “A wedding?” they say.

Why did Jesus go to the wedding?

The answer?  It’s found in the second verse of John 2. “Jesus and His followers were also invited to the wedding”(NCV).

  When the bride and groom were putting the guest list together, Jesus’s name was included. Jesus wasn’t invited because He was a celebrity.  He wasn’t one yet.  The invitation wasn’t motivated by His miracles.  He’d yet to perform any.  Why did they invite Him?

I suppose they liked Him.

Big deal?  I think so. I think it’s significant that common folk in a little town enjoyed being with Jesus. I think it’s noteworthy that the Almighty didn’t act high and mighty.

  He went to great pains to be as human as the guy down the street. He didn’t need to study, but still went to the synagogue.  He had no need for income, but still worked in the workshop.  Upon His shoulders rested the challenge of redeeming creation, but He still took time to walk ninety miles from Jericho to Cana to go to a wedding.

  As a result, people liked Him.

3:16 The Numbers of Hope by Max Lucado