badly wants to tell us is that with these events the life of heaven came down to earth. That’s why one of the motto texts for the whole gospel is ‘the Word became flesh’ (1:14). The present story has all the elements that we shall come to know well as we work through the gospel. It is about transformation: the different dimension of reality that comes into being when Jesus is present and when, as Mary tells the servants, people do whatever Jesus tells them. This is one of only two occasions we meet