John 2

I read John 2: 1-25 today. Jesus has been at a wedding and is making water out of Wine. He also clears the tenple.
We see Jesus, his disciples and Jesus' mother Mary at the wedding.
In Verses 3-4 a conversation between Mary and Jesus takes place saying, "When the wine was gone Jesus mother said to him, "They have no more wine." "Dear woman, why do you involve me. My time has not yet come." Here we see that Mary has the faith in her son, she knows who is is and what he can do. It also appears that Jesus is somewhat flustered that she is wanting him to do this miracle now, when he says his time has not yet come.
Jesus does though. He has some servants bring jugs of water over to the banquet host who drinks it and sees that its wine. The guy doesn't know where it came from but the servants know and they see Jesus First big miracle.
Imagine that the SERVANTS are the ones to see Jesus first really big Miracle.
I think that speaks volumes.

In Verses 12-25 Jesus is going to the temple. When he arrives he sees that the temple is filled with cattle sheep and doves being sold as offerings. It says in Verse 25 that Jesus made a Whip out of some cords and drove them out of the temple. It says he turns over tables and scatters coins everywhere. Jesus is pissed!!! He yells at them saying. "How dare you turn my fthers house into a market."

This was bad first off because they had live animals in the temple, secondly it was bad because these were being sold as offerings/sacrifice to make money. Now a sacrifice you pay money to give to God is hardly a sacrifice to you. You jus paid some money...you didn't give up your livestock or anything that would effect you or come from the heart. This is a huge issue. It's like when the Catholics tried to sell pardons for sins. Not ok!

This is where to me we see Passion from Jesus. You will see people who go on about "Jesus got angery why can't I?" Well lets look at it. Jesus did get angry. He was very angry. BUT he was using this anger as a Passion for God. He was furious that people were doing this to God. Now when we get angry do we get angry about that stuf...no its usually more about some one cutting us off in traffic or we lost something or money issues.
I'm not saying anger is good, I'm saying using your anger to fullfill a passionate cause could be. Learn to channel you anger into something constructive.
Jesus got angry here, but he was never Angry so that he wouldn't fogive or love someone...he never was violent towards others who needed him. He channeled that to make his passionate cause.

Later in Verse 18 the Jews are asking for a sign for him to show that he has this authority. He says that is they tear down the temple he can rebuild it in 3 days...he was talking about his body.
That right there is the prlude to what is to come!