John 2:1, 2. _Concerning the marriage at Cana of Galilee._ The company here at this wedding may represent the church of Christ, who are often represented as the guests called together to a marriage feast. Jesus, and his mother, and his disciples were there; thus it is in the church. The former circu... [ Continue Reading ]
John 2:4. "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come." This expression, as it was used in those times, carried nothing of disrespect by what was then understood by the expression and the force that words then bore; they were not looked upon as unsuitable to... [ Continue Reading ]
John 2:21. "But he spake of the temple of his body." And it seems to me here that he should speak of his body in two senses: in one sense, of the church, which is called his body, and is also called the temple of God, of which the temple of Jerusalem was a type. The temple of Jerusalem may signify t... [ Continue Reading ]