In a public ministry that lasted around three years, the apostle John tells us, Jesus did enough things to fill the world with books. Many of them defied the imagination. But the first “sign” that manifested his glory, and caused his disciples to believe in him, was quite literally a party piece. He went to a wedding and turned one hundred and fifty gallons of water into fine wine. That raises the obvious question: Why? Why—having resolved to take on flesh at this particular point in history, having