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No other book of the New Testament has attracted as much attention from commentators as the Fourth Gospel. It has stirred minds, hearts, and imaginations from Christianity’s earliest days. In The Gospel of John, Francis Moloney unfolds the identifiable “point of view” of this unique Gospel narrative and offers readers, heirs to its rich and widely varied interpretative traditions, relevance for...

an important role to play in the narrative that follows. She is accompanied at the celebration by her son and his disciples (v. 2). The scene has been set as a group of people headed by the mother of Jesus has gathered (eklēthē) for the celebration of a wedding “on the third day.” Action initiated by the mother of Jesus (vv. 3–5). The mother draws Jesus’ attention to a fact that the narrator has already commented on: there was no wine (v. 3). She was the first character introduced and she initiates
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