Another phrase John uses in this passage might seem like a minor detail. Jesus acknowledges his mother by addressing her as “woman” when she tells him that the host has run out of wine (John 2:4). Jesus addresses Mary this way only one other time in John’s Gospel—in John 19:26, when he is dying on the cross and pouring out his blood, the wine of the new covenant (see Mark 14:23–24). By including Jesus’ address to Mary in both of these accounts, John invites us to anticipate the significance of the