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  THE QUESTION:  You have already made reference to the incident claiming your miraculous ability to turn water into wine.  Would you care to start with this often and rather popularly stated miracle?  

 

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  THE ANSWER:  I guess you're going to save the hard ones for the end.  This is probably one of the simplest miracles to have to explain, whether there any true miracles in the first place.  I believe that the Bible, which was compiled some three hundred and twenty-five years after my reported crucifixion makes reference to my having turned water into wine.  While the original statement was certainly and probably stated as one of the original writers had transcribed it, as I believe that there was only one incident that was actually reported.  But if the truth of the matter be known concerning this singular incidence of turning water into wine; this supposed and reported "miracle" actually occurred on more than just this one occasion.  Now, for what might be the reality of the matter; I never did perform anything that even closely resembling the alchemy of changing vessels of water into the sweet fermentation of grapes.  The simple truth was that my ministry was more often appreciated and accomplished amongst some of my people who had far less to share with one another in terms of material things.  There were often those special times of joyous celebration where wine would have been a more than a welcomed complement to the modest offerings of the day; many were just too poor to enjoy any wine out of its season.  It was on some of these special occasions that I had rather enthusiastically suggested that wine just wasn’t at all or always absolutely necessary to any celebration; that the best experienced feelings of joy could be as easily enjoyed simply by sharing one's love and enthusiasm for the actual purpose of the celebration itself.  I would simply offer up a vessel of cool water and summarily suggest that it be consumed as though it was actually wine and that, in any case, it was water that we all truly had need of for the very existence of life itself; in many ways that is not always so apparent, it is the water that should be the true blessing of any celebration that we might ever share with our neighbors.  I believe that there were those who actually preferred the water instead of the sometimes-poor quality of wine that was often made available to these less fortunate Hebrews.  I am amused that such a simple and certainly innocent suggestion of how to actually experienced joy was transformed into some conjuring magical event.  I believe that some of my brothers and sisters must've experienced such joy that they actually believed the water to be wine; true joy can be as intoxicating as the effects of any wine.  It certainly must've been one of those more joyous participants that in their shared enthusiasm reported what they thought to be a miracle.  I guess in one sense, I did a really good job.  So, do you have another easy one for me?

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