Essay On The Third Day

The last theme found in this story has to do with the third day. Jesus preformed the water into wine miracle on the third day at the wedding, “On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee…” (John 2: 1-12). Now the third day is mentioned a lot in the bible and many very significant events occurred on the third day as well. One of the biggest events that occurred on the third mention in the bible was Jesus’s resurrection from the dead. This is obviously one of the most important events that occurred in the bible. Jesus’s ministry last 3 Passovers, which is basically the same thing as the third day. There are a ton of events that occurred on the third day but thinking about just the three events above you can see a significant meaning of the third day. The third day represents …show more content…
Contrary to popular belief I didn’t chose this story because it was the first one in John but before choosing this story I read a lot of the other stories in John and I didn’t come close to finding a story that spoke to me as much as this story did. The wedding at Cana story had many themes that I found to be very valuable and that I found relatable. After I read the story I actually mediated on the story and I even shut off the lights in my room so I would be distracted by nothing. As I thought about what I had just read I had found that parts of the story that I thought didn’t have any meaning to them actually had a much larger meaning and theme that I what I had thought before. I then began to pray on individual words and I was able to find deeper themes and meanings in the story. It was also really cool that as I read the story I was able to apply the terms and concepts that we had learned in class to the story and it made my understanding of