status of this agent as the giver of life in abundance”. As the Messiah, He “exercises the divine prerogative” by “overturning dearth, disease and death”. Jesus’ first recorded miracle took place at a wedding feast, which His disciples and mother also attended (John 2:1–2). The marriage celebration was a symbolic reminder that the age of the Messiah had dawned and inaugurated the blessings of the eschatological kingdom (Gen 49:11; Isa 25:6; Jer 31:5; Hos 2:22; Joel 3:18; Amos 9:13; cf. Bock 2002:424;