And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
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Gill's Exposition
And saith unto him,.... The following words; expressing the common custom used at feasts:
every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; that is, it is usual with men, when they make…
Barnes' Notes
Every man - It is customary, or it is generally done. When men have well drunk - This word does not of necessity mean that they were intoxicated, though it is usually employed in that sense. It may…
Adam Clarke
The good wine until now - That which our Lord now made being perfectly pure, and highly nutritive!
We have here the story of Christ's miraculous conversion of water into wine at a marriage in Cana of Galilee. There were some few so well disposed as to believe in Christ, and to follow him, when he…
Cambridge Bible
when men have well drunk Our translators have timidly shrunk from giving the full coarseness of the man's joke: it should be when they have become drunken, when they are drunk. In Mat 24:49; Act 2:15;…