Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Jesus’ first miracle isn’t about transmutation of beverages — it is about social anxiety. It is about shame. Some relations have not planned well for their wedding, and they are going to be embarrassed, and probably gossiped about, when they run out of wine to serve their guests. Shame related to such an occasion was a big deal in that world. This is, emphatically, not Jesus’ problem. But Jesus has a mother, and mothers of the kind He had have a good way of making things that aren’t our problem our problem, and so Jesus’ mother gives Him a nudge. Jesus is not obviously ready to be nudged, and replies: ‘Woman, what concern is this to us?’ Mary, deploying a classic passive-aggressive maternal strategy, tells the servants: ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ Checkmate.” (11/28/24)