way (2:11, 11:40, 17:4), the cataclysmic event of the Hour will manifest his to all men in a definitive way (12:23, 12:27–33; 17:1). Mary is about to witness the first of Jesus’ glorious signs; Jesus is concerned to warn her beforehand not to expect a public manifestation of his glory.16 The time is surely not ripe f or that yet, because the Hour has not come. The reasons for the delay of the public manifestation are patent; in view of the hardness of heart of Jesus’ own people (1:11),a public manifestation