vine and the ship to flow with fragrant sweet wine (h.Hom., VII.34–40), a scene depicted in Greek art. According to Pausanias (VI.26.1f.), on the eve of Dionysos’ feast empty jars placed in his temple at Elis were miraculously filled overnight with wine. At his festival on Andros and Teos, the temple springs miraculously flowed with wine instead of water (Pliny, NH, II.231, XXXI.16; Diod. Sic., III.66.2). Hellenized readers, familiar with such stories, might suppose John’s message to be that Jesus