Playlist: Wine, Lacking (topic)
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The Bread and Wine of Passover
Sermon by David C. GrabbeThe theme of lacking wine emerges most clearly in the account of the wedding at Cana, where the practical problem was that the guests had run out of wine. All that remained available were six stone waterpots used for ceremonial purification, and this detail carries symbolic weight: the number six represents man, while stone …
Why 153?
Sermonette by David C. GrabbeThe first sign in the book of John corrected the physical need for wine; the eighth sign of 153 fish corrected a spiritual need on the part of God's people.