"Thou hast kept the good wine until now."--_John 2:10._
PERSONS who loved to learn of a Master were called His disciples. So
John and his brother James, Andrew and Simon Peter, Philip and his
friend Nathanael, were all called our Lord's disciples.
[Illustration: JESUS CALLING HIS DISCIPLES.--John 1:51.]
They were all invited to a wedding at Cana, the village in the hills
where Nathanael lived; and the blessed Virgin Mary, our Lord's mother,
was there too. But the bride and bridegroom were poor people, and in
the midst of the feast it turned out that there was not wine enough.
The blessed Virgin said, in a low voice, to her Son, "They have no
wine."
Now, there were six great jars standing by, and JESUS told the servants
to fill them with water. So they filled them up to the brim; and then
He told the servants to draw out some of what they had poured in, and
carry it to the chief person there.
As soon as this man had tasted it, he found it was such good wine that
he said to the bridegroom that most people began their feasts with
their best wine, but that here the best had been kept for the last.
This was the first wonderful thing our Lord did on earth, and it made
His disciples know that He was God, for no one else could have done
such a wonder.
[Illustration: THE MIRACLE IN CANA.--John 2:7, 8.]
We call these wonders miracles. Our Lord worked many more while He was
on earth, and most of them were cures to the blind, or the lame, or the
sick. He made them well directly by His power and love.